ticking in English

noun

1

a strong, durable material, typically striped, used to cover mattresses and pillows.

Even plain muslin or pillow ticking can look good if you spice it up with fancy ribbon.

verb

1

(of a clock or other mechanical device) make regular short sharp sounds, typically one for every second of time that passes.

I could hear the clock ticking

synonyms: click, tock, tick-tock, tap

2

mark (an item) with a check mark, typically to show that it has been chosen, checked, approved, or dealt with.

just tick the appropriate box below

noun

tick

verb

click, pass, ticktock, mark off
click, tock, tick-tock, tap
pass, elapse, go, continue, advance, wear on, roll on, fly, run out, vanish
ticktock, beat
click
mark off, check, mark, tick off, check off

Use "ticking" in a sentence

1. Is there a ticking clock?

2. Everything is ticking over smoothly.

3. Cancer —A Ticking Time Bomb

4. Meanwhile the minutes kept ticking away.

5. There's a bomb ticking inside you.

6. The ticking of the biological clock.

7. At Kate's biological clock was ticking .

8. The engine was just ticking over.

9. His business is just ticking over.

10. Her attitude is really ticking me off.

11. We need a decision - time's ticking away.

12. The business is just about ticking over.

13. 9 Meanwhile the minutes kept ticking away.

14. Carville began ticking off points on his fingers.

15. The market is at least ticking over.

16. It's important to keep your brain ticking over.

17. Just keep things ticking over while I'm away.

18. They got a ticking off from the police.

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20. She gave the boys a severe ticking off.

21. Our sales are ticking over nicely this month.

22. Anachronistically.com The clock is ticking to make an offer

23. Time is, therefore, always ticking in our inner ear.

24. Time is therefore always ticking in their inner ear.

25. I gave her a real ticking off yesterday.

26. From $ 157.85; Sawyer Mill Red Ticking Stripe Quilted Coverlet

27. The clock' s ticking, and so' s the bomb

28. I've left the car with the engine ticking over.

29. Jane will keep things ticking over while I'm away.

30. Melting Alpine glaciers yield Archaeologic troves, but clock ticking

31. The business is ticking over nicely at the moment.

32. While we waited the taxi's meter kept ticking away.

33. Ellen heard the loud ticking of the clock in the hall.

34. 25 In the silence we could hear the clock ticking.

35. The rhythm of the camp is constant, a ticking metronome.

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37. The taxi waited, its motor running, the meter ticking away.

38. They're in Mexico with no criminal record and a ticking clock.

39. Bracketology 03.11.21 Time is ticking quickly in the Bracketology world

40. 11 The cab was waiting outside, the engine ticking over.

41. 11 In the silence we could hear the clock ticking.

42. The taxi waited, its motor running[Sentencedict.com ], the meter ticking away.

43. We sat in complete silence, save for the ticking of the clock.

44. The United Nations would now have a ticking time bomb on its hands.

45. It would seem the house is burning and the clock is ticking, Michael.

46. Each taxicab is fitted with a meter ticking off the fare due.

47. Catnip’s effects have a ticking clock—about five to 30 minutes, Rotman says

48. After a while, the loud ticking of the clock began to irritate me.

49. Through the information technologies they have spawned, computers step up the pace of the ticking.

50. He heard the clock ticking audibly and half suspected that he had been dozing.