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Example sentences for: ticking

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In an editorial Thursday, the Manila Times of the Philippines said that "the imagery of the bomb--the mushroom cloud, the ticking clock--has suddenly re-entered the public consciousness once more as India, in full view of the world, conducted five nuclear tests and then proceeded to declare itself a nuclear weapons state."
“There will always be a need for new antibiotics because the clock starts ticking on the useful lifetime of any antibiotic once you start to use it.
The Enquirer also warns that Monica Lewinsky is a " 'ticking time bomb' of self-destruction," at risk of either suicide or blimping up, according to one of the publication's favorite psychiatrists, Dr. Carole Lieberman of Beverly Hills.
But the clock is ticking.
A lost flotilla, the hemisphere tapped in my ear, the ticking of whales the warnings of sand.