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Example sentences for: ticking

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McCain : The Social Security Trust Fund is a ticking time bomb.
That's the message of The Potato Eaters , with its little glinting lamp illuminating the darkness and its loaded juxtaposition on the background wall of ticking clock and Crucifixion, time and eternity.
The NYT gives an excellent feel for the difficulties such questions might pose, ticking off details challenging various previous Clinton statements, garnered from the grand jury appearances of Betty Currie, Vernon Jordan and Secret Service personnel.
There I found a watch with hands that suited me, made my purchase, and left, but a question was still ticking within: analog watch ? Presumably, the analog refers to measuring time by an analog, with hands and a circular face, rather than by the more scientific-looking digital system.
Then you turn a corner and enter a different world, where the immediacy of modern life, of the ticking clock, is everywhere palpable.