ticktock

Example Sentences

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Together they produced an hourslong ticktock cacophony that has become the unwanted soundtrack of the lives of McKee and her neighbors.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 30, 2023

There’s pointillistic syncopation from marimba, glockenspiel and pizzicato strings, with a backdrop of sustained chords: the ticktock of everyday minutiae held together by the promise of constancy.

From New York Times • Sep. 23, 2022

The public is offered a timeline of events, a preliminary ticktock, not of why the mayhem unfolded but of how it was put down.

From Washington Post • Jun. 7, 2022

Healthy pastures of eelgrass offer a mesmerizing beauty, swishing gently in the ticktock of the tide.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 21, 2022

I can practically hear the ticktock of her brain.

From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman