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Example sentences for: ticks

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

His charge is asleep, the grandfather clock ticks peacefully in the background, but Gramps is too frightened to move, lest he disturb the infant.
The paper effortlessly ticks off several of the scandal's other new poontangents: a federal judge's denial of Clinton's request for a speed-up of the Paula Jones case, another federal judge's allowing Kenneth Starr to get his hands on a sealed deposition made by the allegedly lipstick-smeared and disheveled Oval Office visitor Kathleen Willey, and the turn-over to Starr of boxes of Jones case materials about yet other women thought linked to Clinton.
On Late Edition , Reform Party hopeful Donald Trump ticks off members of his ideal presidential Cabinet:
The paper ticks off the spate of other similar arrangements struck recently--Best Buy and Microsoft, Circuit City and AOL, Kmart and Yahoo, Radio Shack and Microsoft--and nutshells the point: giving online concerns access to the still-huge number of offline homes while jumpstarting the struggling Web presences of traditional retailers.
(To hear an example, click ".") Psychological manipulations that work on almost everyone fail with Watto--"Mind ticks don'ta work on me ...