tick-tock
Example Sentences
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It’s important to note that long before the tick-tock and chiming of clocks, our ancestors — you know, that raggedy bunch dressed in animal fur — had to adapt to seasonal changes in daylight.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 8, 2025
On March 22, the New York Times published a lengthy and revealing tick-tock account of the Justice Department’s efforts to prosecute Trump.
From Salon • Apr. 6, 2024
Ultimately, the researchers found that the tick-tock of the quasar clocks behaved just as Einstein’s relativity predicts.
From Scientific American • Jul. 19, 2023
The company is in a tick-tock release pattern of sorts with its popular 6-Series TV.
From The Verge • Sep. 1, 2022
She stood at the foot of the stairs and called them, but there was no answering patter of running feet, only the steady tick-tock of the old clock in the hallway.
From "The Incredible Journey" by Sheila Burnford
