tick
Example Sentences
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Lyme disease is a bacterial infection that can be spread to humans by infected ticks, and affects an estimated 476,000 Americans each year.
As the clock ticked down Sunday night, Iowa’s men’s basketball team faced a seemingly impossible task.
He will never not have his detractors, skilled at ticking off all the self-inflicted controversies, chaoses and that 2013 vacated national title that will follow him around forever.
Time crystals are unusual forms of matter made up of particles that "tick," meaning they move back and forth in steady, repeating cycles.
From Science Daily
He was able to just keep ticking over.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
