TICK in a Sentence

Learn TICK from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

61 example sentences for TICK, such as:

1. Tick, tick, tick went the machine.
2. Tick tick tick the machine reiterated.
3. This is a pretty early tick, I reckon.
4. The tick of the machine was maddening.
5. Tick, tick, tick the machine continued.

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 Meanings and Examples of TICK
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
tick
 v.  emit recurring clicking sounds; do well or as designed
Classic Sentence: (51 in 4 pages)
1  Yet the stage was empty; only the cows moved in the meadows; only the tick of the gramophone needle was heard.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 6
2  The tick, tick, tick seemed to hold them together, tranced.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 6
3  Tick, tick, tick the machine continued.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 6
4  Only the tick tick of the gramophone held them together.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 10
5  Tick, tick, tick, went the machine in the bushes.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
6  Tick tick tick the machine reiterated.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
7  The tick of the machine was maddening.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
8  Tick, tick, tick went the machine.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
9  We've put in seventy pounds of best feathers, and I think that's as many as the tick will fairly hold.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: 4 Cheerfulness Again Asserts Itself at Blooms-End, and Clym Finds His
10  Oh, anybody can run a tick down that don't belong to them.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
11  This is a pretty early tick, I reckon.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
12  Tom enclosed the tick in the percussion-cap box that had lately been the pinchbug's prison, and the boys separated, each feeling wealthier than before.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
13  He released the tick and put him on the long flat desk.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
14  Soon Tom said that they were interfering with each other, and neither getting the fullest benefit of the tick.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
15  The tick escaped from Tom, presently, and crossed the equator.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
Example Sentence:
1  He made this factory tick two decades with strong knowledge of the economics and technology.
2  The government does, however, want them to have a decent grasp of what customs and values make this country tick.
3  Put a tick in the box if you agree with this statement.
4  Mrs Watts will tick you off if you're late again.
5  Afterward, they return home to their modest apartments, where some tick off the days in solitude - and poverty.
6  She ticked off three items on the list.
7  He ticked off my name on a piece of paper.
8  In the silence we could hear the clock ticking.
9  He described global warming as "an environmental time bomb ticking away".
10  Very slowly he moved forward, the engine ticking over.