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Example sentences for: ticking

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He glowers and snorts like the Incredible Hulk--"I am a ticking time bomb!"
If Clinton, as is now increasingly clear, was a time bomb waiting to explode, then Stephanopoulos helped smuggle him into the White House and muffled the ticking.
Yes, it's mechanical, even metronomical, but thrillers are built out of wheels and pulleys and ticking clocks, and De Palma's machines are more intricate than anyone's since Hitchcock.
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.
For the past few weeks my usual stack of junk mail has been supplemented with a steady stream of 2001 tax statements and forms, reminding me that the clock has begun ticking towards April 15.