How to Use ticking in a Sentence

ticking

noun

• One thing that will never change is the ticking of time and the arrival of a New Year.
  — Christopher Brito, CBS News, 24 Sep. 2020
• And the sounds – the clang of the metal shutter, the ticking of the drive clock and the clacking of the chains add deeply to the experience.
  — Dean Regas, The Enquirer, 8 Apr. 2022
• Might seem like the Cowboys still have room to figure all this out, but the clock’s ticking.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 14 June 2023
• The second hand also sweeps around the clock face, so there's no ticking.
  — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 22 Aug. 2022
• After all, his forebears as the world’s best players were prepared to accept the ticking of the clock.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 21 Oct. 2022
• In the clip, a high schooler falls victim to Vecna’s tricks, lured in my the ticking of a mysterious clock.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 13 July 2023
• With the clockwise motion of the minute hand, these graduations faded and reappeared on the screen in time with the ticking of the clock sample that loops the LP.
  — Rachel Narozniak, Billboard, 10 Oct. 2022
• Besides the ticking of the clock, other obstacles abound.
  — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 16 Feb. 2023
• Quinerly had to throw one off a defender’s knee early and then threw one out of bounds with the five-second clock ticking.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 15 Feb. 2023
• Below, check out the best beauty deals that Target's sale has to offer — but act quickly, because the clock's ticking.
  — Jennifer Hussein, Allure, 25 Nov. 2021
• Below, check out the best Black Friday beauty deals that Target has to offer right now — but act quickly, because the clock's ticking.
  — Jennifer Hussein and sarah Hoffmann, Allure, 22 Nov. 2022
• But that ticking, which was in fact a silence, something like acceptance, was ominous.
  — Paul Theroux, Harper’s Magazine , 17 Aug. 2022
• Just remember: The clock’s ticking, and the majority of these deals won't be live tomorrow!
  — Nishka Dhawan, USA TODAY, 30 Apr. 2021
• The sounds of the kitchen — the ticking of the clock, the whir of the industrial mixer, the clanging of metal pots, not to mention the constant conversations shouted across sizzling pans — make my brain hurt.
  — Megan Hennessey, Vulture, 1 Aug. 2022
• With the clock ticking, family, friends, and superstar Smokey Robinson come together to stage the most special pageant yet.
  — Breanne L. Heldman, PEOPLE.com, 28 Sep. 2021
• Time's ticking—head to Amazon to grab this speaker and amplify all your outdoor adventures for the summer.
  — Dale Arden Chong, Men's Health, 10 June 2022
• Spanx Tight-End Tights are our best overall pick, ticking boxes of comfort, durability, and style.
  — L.a. Hubilla, Peoplemag, 26 June 2023
• The music fades, leaving only a faint ticking that will eventually fade, too.
  — Siobhan Burke, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2023
• In the final minutes of regulation, with the clock ticking and both teams scrambling, the concussion spotter stopped the game to get a check for Broncos linebacker Nik Bonitto.
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Oct. 2022
• Down in the trenches, purpose can seem like a distant luxury when the daily skirmish is with spreadsheets, customer complaints and the relentless ticking of the clock.
  — Ira Wolfe, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
• Many composers had incorporated the steady, rhythmic ticking of a clock into their works.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2022
• Like a ticking—or, rather, flashing—clock, some energy sources in the universe hit us with beam after beam of photons, lighting up and darkening on a very set schedule.
  — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 20 July 2023
• The constant ticking of other people’s keyboards can be quite distracting.
  — Haley Sprankle, Wired, 16 Mar. 2022
• The bench seats are made of high-resiliency polyfoam wrapped in poly/feather blend and encased in down-proof ticking (a fabric covering that prevents the feathers from poking through the upholstery).
  — Kristina McGuirk, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Oct. 2023
• During the final four-minute stretch, Mitchell launched a contested ticking-clock pullup 26-footer before attempting a tough step-back that ignited a Stephen Curry runout.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 12 Nov. 2022
• With the clock ticking and negotiations seemingly at an impasse, Pact has now approached both streamers and broadcasters to discuss what will happen in the event there is no new agreement in place by Sept. 1.
  — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 3 Aug. 2022
• The outside world, meanwhile, is glimpsed through the eyes of Iryna (Iryna Kiryazeva), a solemn, kindly warden who takes more than the requisite interest in Lesya’s ticking-clock plight to find a family member to look after her son.
  — Guy Lodge, Variety, 13 Dec. 2021
• Put another way, the passage of time, then, is not simply the ticking by of time but an actual passageway, one that’s a transportive threshold to a different dimension, or the same one that just happens to feel so vastly foreign to this one.
  — Ross Kenneth Urken, Scientific American, 14 June 2021
• Quantum mechanics treats time as absolute, but general relativity messes with the ticking of clocks, complicating the notion of change from one moment to the next.
  — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 26 Sep. 2022
• Moving through the exhibition, the ticking of the clock stops and space jumps galaxies, sending viewers deeper and deeper into an unfolding concept of Afrofuturism.
  — Deneen L. Brown, Washington Post, 10 May 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024