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Example sentences for: ticking

How can you use “ticking” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Then you turn a corner and enter a different world, where the immediacy of modern life, of the ticking clock, is everywhere palpable.
“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.
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, who reportedly was ticking him off for not being tough enough on the Serbs on the Kosovo issue (see Slate 's "The Week/The Spin" for more on the situation in Kosovo).
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.
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.