ticktock

Example Sentences

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The title comes from a game Willa watches Cheryl and two friends playing: the girls’ arms all arms of a human clock, ticktocking through a summer afternoon.

From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2018

“Base Pairs” has been advertised as juxtaposing creationism and evolution, and its opening formation of bodies in a cross immediately becomes a clockwork of rotating arms and ticktocking torsos.

From New York Times • Sep. 5, 2013