How To Use Tick In A Sentence

Secondly, he makes the team too much money, raking in ticket and merchandise sales like crazy.
My guess is they were either swapping football stickers or comparing notes on how to look after successful women. The Sun
He did his final piece of serious work on Tuesday morning, which was grand, and we have just kept him ticking over with a couple of canters.
Whisk the egg in a bowl and heat a little oil in a nonstick pan. Times, Sunday Times
If you interview a lot of conservative Democrats, even in states like Texas, you know, New Mexico, they are very concerned that Hillary Clinton on the top of the ticket would really kind of depress voter turnout and ultimately affect a lot of down ballot races. CNN Transcript Apr 18, 2008

Depending on the size of your pippy bag, the proportions will be all wrong, and it will look a bit like a three-dimensional stick person with a huge bloated hydrocephalic head, but don't worry about that. Hooting Yard
A few weeks before the vote on November 7, the buzz goes, Cheney will announce his resignation, ostensibly because of signs of new trouble with his ticker.
This being Los Angeles, and me being a hick from the sticks, I was only a few feet away from asking the shorter guy for an autograph, when I chickened out.
After a bit of a stickybeak at the Queen's Scottish residence of Holyroodhouse, we made the most of the remaining daylight walking the length of the Royal Mile through the Old Town back to the castle, stopping by the Heart of Midlothian. TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com
I put on black eyeliner, mascara, red eye shadow with black tints towards the edges of my eyes, and ruby colored lipstick.
Each item was skewered on a cocktail stick and laid like sun rays around the plate, which also had a flower intricately carved out of turnip for decoration.
That's when I noticed the little sticker on the window explaining the purpose of the ‘Child Safety Lock’.
Most rural stations had a staff of at least six, and perhaps up to a dozen, who them carried out the duties of stationmaster, signalman, booking clerk, ticket collector, porter, shunter, lengthman and lampman.
It wasn't just the obvious favouritism towards their own daughter that ticked him off either, that wasn't even the beginning of it.
So you blurb the writer rather than the book, so you just know that that's going to be the one they stick on the cover.
Two bus-rides and a walk in the rain later we found the old dairy farm, muttering under our breaths about the wisdom of locating such an establishment way out in the sticks.
Using wire transmission, with long service life, and not sticky paste, silk or nylon thread transmission can be equipped with water-hao to justice system.
Ditch your mascara, use your fingers rather than a brush and don't forget to smudge your lipstick. Times, Sunday Times
This is a case of simmering rage and resentment at the stick from outsiders, which will come nicely to the boil at 8pm tonight. The Sun
It'll be difficult to get past the ticket collector without paying.
Smith enforced a highly unpopular no-guns policy in the cowtown, and for the most part, made the law stick by beating the hell out of people with his bare hands. The Four Toughest Men of the Old West
Looking at Yankee Stadium (home of the world champion Yankees) it appears you can buy a ticket for one of the nosebleed seats, and then after the game starts pick any seat you want from about row 10 up.
It was here that the Gaelic tongue first arrived in the fourth century - and with it came that form of the stick game which has evolved into the modern sport of shinty.
The pilot straps himself to this bulky rig in a standing position, controlling it with joysticks during vertical takeoff and landing - or VTOL, as we say in the hover biz.
Stick us in a virgin paradise, and we create great honeycombed bureaucracies, vast bramble-fields of rules and regulations, ornate politburos filled with policymaking politicos, and, above all, tangled webs of power.
The boracic powder was lifted in my absence from the _Pharmacie_ to try and get the first glimmerings of a slide on that sticky creosoted floor. Fanny Goes to War
KEEPS the England midfield ticking over like an expensive timepiece. The Sun
Stick to this well-regarded first book in the series. Times, Sunday Times
I also have a goldenrod-colored scarf (you know, one of those pashmina-y things) that goes nicely with this, and about two weeks ago I was in "the city" (which seems to be what you call San Francisco, if you live near it) wearing this dress, that scarf, and an old denim Levi's jacket I swiped from my Dad in roughly 1987 (with bright pink leather gloves sticking out of the breast pocket) and a tourist actually STOPPED ME ON THE STREET and asked to take my picture. The Return (With Butterflies) - A Dress A Day
The knife landed with its point sticking into the floor.
However, some patients seek help late in the season, when their symptoms have progressed from a runny nose to sticky yellow mucus with red, hot itchy and swollen eyes.
French-headquartered RFID card, ticket and reader provider announced this week that ASK-intTag, a joint venture it established with Wisconsin-based label converter RFID Update
Add your stick or card of choice and it shows up in the mobile app, just as if you'd slotted it into a computer. Times, Sunday Times
My philosophy of life is to stick close to the golden mean.
An hour later, a broomstick settled gently on the lawn.
Our reaction to a tickling sensation may have arisen from a defence against creepy-crawlies. Times, Sunday Times
Yet because many of the environmental consequences are hidden from view and from our national income accounts, we sit atop ticking ecological time bombs.
All tickets are booked, the glitzy hotel has been booked, and I will be flying up there this Friday, around mid day.
Just ahead, the Democratic ticket is official, and the game is underway.
There's no wit here, just slapstick comedy. Times, Sunday Times
Alex leaned up against the locker near hers and waited patiently for her to stick her coat in the locker and get the padlock on and locked.
He walked with the aid of a stick and his physique spoke of too intimate a relationship with the demon drink.
Grill, broil or cook patties in a nonstick fry pan, about 5 minutes per side until done.
Tick-borne diseases in the United States include Rocky Mountain spotted fever, Lyme disease, ehrlichiosis, tularemia, babesiosis, Colorado tick fever, and relapsing fever.
Instead of emitting light, like a laser, the maser emits microwave energy at a specific frequency, which produces a very specific ticking.
The paddles turned out to be harmless slapsticks, with holes through the actual paddle part so they could cause a loud slapping noise without hurting.
Not so much a summer scorcher, then, but a hot ticket that remains boisterously good fun for the undemanding multiplex-goers.
Shakespeare with practical axioms and domestick wisdom. Preface to Shakespeare
Nicolas, who lives in Pondicherry, India, makes his own kites using siliconised nylon and carbon sticks. Home | Mail Online
If the cops camped out at the corner of Spadina and College, they could cover the costs of their salaries by ticketing bike-lane parkers.
If the DJIA falls by the target amount, the collar is called the uptick rule. Essential Guide to Business Style and Usage
Field tickets give access to the open terracing of the stadium.
She has been taken to a local processing center, where she will be fingerprinted, photographed, ticketed and released.
As the days and games tick by, perhaps they will implode under the pressure of expectation. Times, Sunday Times
Note:From May 1, 2006, public transit tickets were sold by card swiping, so passenger transportation volume is uncomparable with that in 2005.
Lyme disease is a bacterial infection spread to humans by infected ticks. The Sun
This defense of evidential decision theory is called the tickle defense because it assumes that an introspected condition screens off the correlation between choice and prediction. Causal Decision Theory
In his book Reading, Writing, and the Hickory Stick, Dr. Irwin Hyman says that all of these punitive practices can leave a child with serious long-term aftereffects. How to Talk so Kids Can Learn
Tuesday, 19 February 2008 first signs of spring - centre piece of the month february pick whatever flowers you get at the supermarket to make this little basket filled with flowers. ranunculus are my favourites and available all over the place at the moment, so i chose to put them into this flowery centrepiece. the orchid is quite fancy but you just really need one to pimp this up (and it keeps for ever!). a rose or two, some ivy and green leaves from the forest and you are all set. to get started line a basket with some foil and trim on the edges. soak some floral foam in water and place in the basket, when soaked wet (can be really, really wet - it will have to work as a vase to the flowers), eventually cut and trim the floral on the edges, so that it resembles an arch. trim flowers and green leaves and stick into pot. start doing so on the bottom of foam, working upwards until you have an even flowery centrepiece. make sure foam stays moist - adding some water from time to time. Archive 2008-02-01
It's impossible if you stick to the rules.
Levy grinned and I knew, in his head, he was tickling her tonsils. Shortcut Man
When she had said this she looked at Vinicius with astonishment and regret, for he had disaccustomed her to similar outbursts; and he set his teeth, so as not to tell her that he would have given command to beat such a brother with sticks, or would have sent him as a compeditus Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero
Buy The Ticket, Take The Ride. Hunter S. Thompson
Tickets for the event cost only £5 each and that also includes a light supper.
Initial police reports suggested that he jumped the ticket barrier and ran onto the train.
Let me start by saying sorry if this has been posted elsewhere, but I couldn't find it in the sticky and I'm not sure how to search whole questions.
We believe that eventually every major consumer-oriented company will need interactive programming - sticky content - for their Web sites.
He is a happy man, journey justified, as he ticks this bird off his list.
So maybe BP isn't the best example yet, but clearly businesses that embrace principles of social entrepreneurship--discovering how to "unstick" society when it has gotten stuck, by changing the system--are having widespread impact in making the new buzzphrase "social value" the litmus test for success for not only social entrepreneurs but profit-oriented businesses, too. Marian Salzman: Reinvention, Part II
stick the photo onto the corkboard
And when he and his wife, Toni, go boating with friends, Andreas sticks to his dress code.
Instead of letting life just tick over you're ready to set new goals and make a step-by-step action plan. The Sun
Street vendors sell bundles of sticky rice bound in banana leaf. Times, Sunday Times
It seemed that every bar, no matter how tiny, had wedged a trio of musicians into a corner - one singing, one playing guitar and another scratching out a raspy beat on the guiro, a hollow gourd played with a stick.
My fingerboard gets sticky and I get fed-up and want to sit in the garden.
Eric Widstrand, City Traffic Engineer for the Seattle Department of Transportation, told the newspaper that the hula hoop is a sticker (which is graffiti) that has been applied to the sign to make it look like the pedestrian is hula-hooping. Hooping.org | Blog | Hula Hoop Pedestrian-Crossing Sign Confuses Some
I was on the driveway yesterday jumping around on my pogo stick.
I groped for the gear stick, sobbing desperately as the car lurched forward.
The investigators have recommended the removal of dual control joysticks for all non-training flights.
He tried wiggling the control stick but nothing happened.
Tickets for other Amalgamation matches should soon be available and it is hoped that more extensive advertising and a reduced number of contests at favoured venues will see a reverse in the dwindling attendances.
Offered second billing on the Whig Party ticket in 1848, Daniel Webster cracked, "I do not propose to be buried until I am dead.
This image is on the purchased ticket, making transfer all but impossible. Times, Sunday Times
Of course everyone knew the reason for all the strangers - those faked tickets someone had distributed. DEATH IN FASHION
on what kind of yardstick is he basing his judgment?
This music is a one-way ticket to your own personal paradise.
The point is, you must approach it with the carrot and the stick.
After further review of the matter, I stick to my belief that the court got this one wrong.
In fact, during deportation souteneurs buy tickets, bring meal, collect suitcases and even give money for the new passport.
Some men sat around the fire, cooking meat on sticks, drinking from gourds and laughing.
The airline suggests booking tickets 21 days in advance.
If you've booked an open-jaw international ticket out of Darwin, the hop between Kununurra and Darwin will start at £73 with Air North.
Apyrase, an enzyme in tick saliva, may maintain blood flow into the bite by stimulating local vasodilation and preventing platelet aggregation.
A police officer witnessed this blatant disregard for the law and attempted to ticket the student for jaywalking.
I will not be there with a £180 ticket to be biffed into kingdom come by some insane person on the end of a weighted rope - or falling off it - but good luck to those who come to brave the 2 chords of U2 at warp volume and other truffles of this cultural feast. Bono and The Edge defend Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark
validate a ticket
Hurling supporters in neighbouring parishes are scouring local GAA officials in the hope of getting a ticket to the September 12 Final.
The police officer gave us a ticket for going through a red light.
The 88-year-old coble, a flat-bottomed fishing boat, had survived a direct hit by a stick bomb in 1943, which went right through her hull.
She was shocked and horrified but she is sticking by me and says she will help me as best she can. The Sun
Tickets are priced at E10 with concessions at E5.
The long chain of people moved irritably slow, minutes ticking by with seemingly no progress being made.
The employer - he really deserves to be named - was told in the crudest language possible where to stick the job.
A minimum of one Lotto ticket serial number is drawn from all valid tickets each Lotto draw.
Elsewhere, the Abbey National is offering a #50 cashback sweetener to encourage borrowers to stick with them, ‘because life's complicated enough’.
Using his special truffling stick, he extracts the truffle from between the roots.
Judith C had been disabled since birth, getting about with sticks and, for much of her life, leg calipers.
Also add chopped, raw vegetables such as carrot sticks and cherry tomatoes to munch on. The Sun
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And a man who sells wooden walking sticks and rolling pins may not seem to be a good global economic barometer.
He gave the dog a vicious blow with his stick.
Still can spread stick use at outside wall illuminative is small ceramic tile, but the attention does not change balcony outboard color, lest make local lose harmony with whole building.
Victorian propriety is an important element of the story, the atmosphere to be upended over and over by slapstick action and sudden death. Archive 2008-02-01
Also up for grabs were walking sticks, Zimmer frames, wheelchairs, microwaves, refrigerators and industrial vacuum cleaners.
Add the vermouth, garlic and cayenne, boil the liquid away and start adding ladlefuls of the seaweed and saffron-flavoured vegetable stock, stirring vigorously all the while to aid absorption and prevent sticking.
He really is an irritating little tick, isn't he?
big-ticket items like cars and furs
One curious survivor from the early days of headed cabbages is the enormously tall Jersey or walking stick cabbage, whose stem is as high as a man and has been recorded as reaching 5 metres.
Second, as a global superstar he would have boosted weak ticket sales. The Sun
He looked a complete mess - dressed anyhow with hair sticking up on end.
Doubt he tried to clean up there afterwards - not with all that ticker tape on the floor. The Sun
On the table is a bowl of fruit with two bananas sticking up, one either side.
Take over the world one lipstick shade and one vintage display item at a time! The Sun
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The department also said that 26 portable memory sticks containing classified information had been stolen or misplaced since January. Times, Sunday Times
Within the city, call 0131-557-1700 for information about accommodations, theater and concert tickets, tours and maps.
Traffic wardens in Bristol who issue the most tickets are being rewarded with meals and pens to circumvent a ban on financial incentives. Times, Sunday Times
As well as isolation, problems included often rugged terrain, the prohibitive cost of transport, cattle ticks and poison plants.
Taking that idea a step further, we envisioned a ticker tape effect repeating a message spelled out in pixelated type. Mosaic Tiles : A Fresh Bathroom Look
The machine that prints tickets assigned the number 666 as a prefix on all the tickets for the film, said Gary Smith, owner of the Movies at Berry Square in northwest Georgia.
Established in 1971, the 13,500-square-meter megastore is an institution in Singapore, selling everything from saris to air tickets to canned chickpeas to Rolexes. After Hours: Singapore
Some tutors attempt the _suaviter in modo_, my schoolmaster preferred the _fortiter in re_; and, as the boatswain said, by the "instigation" of a large knotted stick, he drove knowledge into our skulls as a caulker drives oakum into the seams of Frank Mildmay Or, The Naval Officer
Ah well, at least I can get a concession ticket now, thanks to my lowly student status.
Even getting a ticket for the match is over complicated these days.
The language is necessarily tortured in describing the 18,225 electronic scratch-ticket machines that would be apportioned according to a formula in the initiative.
Tell those candy-ass wannabe pitchers to stick it.
As Mona she wears glittering, flimsy garments with sheer embroidered scarves, hennaed hair, nail varnish and lipstick.
And despite its sweet taste, sticky toffee pudding is often the saltiest. The Sun
Those fans who do shell out for tickets for the final still face astronomical transport costs. Times, Sunday Times
We may show our Paganism through our jewelry or our bumper stickers, or the pentagram we trace over our meals as we bless them.
Employees will work to prequalify iPhone customers while they wait in line; those buyers will receive a claim ticket for the phone, which Apple says can be redeemed on the spot or later the same day by 6PM (or 4PM on Sundays). Apple stores opening early for iPhone customers
Right after we came ashore, we felt the sticky, humid air of the land hit our faces.
The guns are actuated by a three-way switch on the spade grip of the stick.
Whenever possible, forego fashion and stick with ‘sensible’ shoes.
The offer of two tickets for the price of one makes it a very attractive proposition .
The person who answered the door was the artist, Yelton, who had even carved a talking stick for the Queen about 10 years ago.
For added protection choose a lipstick with a sun screen.
For all you one-way ticket holders remaining on board, to quote Marlon Brando in "On The Waterfront," next stop: "Palookaville"! Magic-city-news.com
The youngster examines minutely curiously: The flavour of that drumstick how?
If she was this careful and I was fool enough to admit that I dossed in the park she'd probably stick me in some garret over her stables, with that businessman of hers counting the teaspoons every time I went for a pee. The Vatican Rip
As Jamie Baker reported in Thursday's Telegram, since the rules allowed it, Rideout thinks the whole idea is just tickety-boo. Rideout defends 5K gift of public cash
Pledgee may obtain pledge report from its DP and verify creation of pledge. viii After the loan is repaid, the pledgor will instruct its DP to close the pledge by submitting the "Pledge Form" with a tick on "Close Pledge". Recently Uploaded Slideshows
The throttle twist grip on the end of the collective stick has to be coordinated with the up and down movements.
It's apparently far better to stick pig-headed to your original idea.
There was two or three chairs, that might have been worth, in their best days, from eightpence to a shilling a – piece; a small deal table, an old corner cupboard with nothing in it, and one of those bedsteads which turn up half way, and leave the bottom legs sticking out for you to knock your head against, or hang your hat upon; no bed, no bedding. Sketches by Boz
Your return ticket is valid for three months.
She saw a tube of lipstick out of the corner of her eye and applied it to her lips before smacking them together looking at the result before grimacing and swiping it from her lips.
Cassie whirled about, dropped the stickweed, and came running, laughing. The Dollmaker
We went to renew our monthly season ticket.
The man has limbs like lollipop sticks. Times, Sunday Times
At the end, she decided to stick with the Main Street, so as not to be easily lost.
The most accessible data which might serve as a yardstick is that on applicants' type of educational establishment.
When you see a place like Las Vegas, Phoenix or Orlando you're talking about what happened earlier in the decade so it's not necessarily a yardstick of what's going to happen over the next two or three years," said William Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution in Washington. Population Shift Swells Southern and Western Cities
One of her main schtick is that she supposedly is a big champion'er of full disclosure. Is That Legal?: Michelle Malkin: Blogging While Flying?
We are too fond of living for the day, of buying on tick and the never-never.
The map gone!" and he seized the candle from Bud's hand, and, holding it so that its light illuminated the whole bunk, stared wildly down on the rumpled surface of the rude bedtick, which now, the blankets having been thrown off, showed its entire surface to the light of the candle. The Cave of Gold A Tale of California in '49
When it comes to monster movies, novelty is not the be-all end-all; there is always room for a splashy new death or a witty recontextualization, but there are benefits to sticking to the formula. Farihah Zaman: 2010 Fantastic Fest #3: All Creatures Great and Small; Zombies, Vampires, and Terrible Human Beings
I can still remember biting through the coconut-studded chocolate shell into the gloriously sticky, snow-white goo within.
No wonder her work is cutting through the stale, stodgy world of Scottish desserts like a red hot knife through a wodge of sticky toffee pudding.
Second, there is an additive in that anthrax, bentonite, which is used to cause the anthrax to not stick together, and float in the air. Hullabaloo
Her house is a shack made of sticks, black plastic and a few sheets of tin.
Behind him an antique grandfather clock slowly ticks away. Times, Sunday Times
The advantage of booking tickets in advance is that you get better seats.
Shall I tie the parcel or use sticky tape?
What began in 1968 as a Beltway junkie's labor of love has turned into an authoritative collection of whistle-stopping campaign slogans and vicious slings and arrows of partisan attacks that stretches all the way back to the Founding Fathers (who came up with terms like "electioneer" and the party "ticket"). How to Sound Presidential
Once or twice a day the intrepid fisherman ‘runs’ his trot line meaning he gets in a boat and checks the hook dangling beneath each float and if necessary sticks a fresh perch on it for bait.
It's not bad to be reminded that there's a whole horde of men of his generation out there in the sticks for whom the old shibboleths are pretty important.
‘Sorry,’ I winced, as he wandered back into the room, his hair beginning to stick up in bizarre tufty spikes.
Well, then, seriously, melodrama was the correct ticket and all that in 1840, but we've outgrown it; it's devilish demode to chuck things in people's faces. Lady Baltimore
_ A person who presides at backsword or singlestick, to regulate the game; an umpire: a person who settles disputes. The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire
In the pictures of girls - Miss Catherine Tatton is an extreme example - black and carmine are applied so crisply that you would, today, think of mascara and lipstick.
Rafe rolled his eyes in amusement, tickled at her reaction.
And with billions and billions served helpings of the lardaceous potato strips, it's a sticky moment for JamesSkinner'sJames Skinner's Golden Arches, which last October boasted of its initiative to print nutritional data on its packages to help consumers make informed choices about what to eat. Skinner's McDonald's Comes Clean On Fries' Fat
Instead of standing up to them and telling them to stick it, I just ended up juggling a complex number of lies.
Elektra's martial arts mentor Stick will reportedly play a central role in the film which will see Elektra battling the ninja clan known as The Hand.
So Foster's got this vaguely martyr-like songbird persona she's working, and sometimes the devious witch bit sticks out too, as on ‘Crackerjack Fool’.
In the meantime, I guess I'll just revel in my stickability, and occasionally I'll keep posting.
Pink Elephants on Parade" and "When I See an Elephant Fly" are the only songs that stick out.
Entry was available only through acquisition of unadvertised tickets sold or given away to select customers.
All being so nearly ready, I called the drowsy boy again, and, showing him a very large stick in the wood-box, asked him to bring me a hatchet. The Brick Moon, and Other Stories
For days before, public drapers were to be seen clinging cross-legged to obelisk and peristyle; moving in spread-eagle fashion, hung in a jacket of sail-cloth attached to cables, across the fronts of buildings, looping garlands, besticking banners and spreading tapestries. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt
Jahn glanced at his chopsticks, bento lunch, and then gave him an exasperated look.
It does leave race-goers here facing a potentially ticklish problem, however.
If you're a regular rail user or commuter, consider an annual season ticket. The Sun
The cop carried a stick, ready to thwack anybody who offended his ear or eye.
Despite the upheaval resulting from the arrival of Business Casual in the workplace and what has been described as the casualization of America, women rising through management ranks stick to their suits. “I Don’t Have a Thing to Wear”
Langorous horns, ticking guitars and muted keyboards have been added, sketching out long, graceful arcs of melody over the bubbling rhythms.
Jersey political shtick stand-up at the Democratic National Convention; the arena that bore his name has gone through several different corporate sponsors since, and is currently a severely brand-infected assaultively unrelenting advertising-delivery module - in which basketball is still played, sometimes - sponsored by Izod. Can't Stop The Bleeding
During a recent conversation with somebody who is sticking to the term blessing, they said that the term inspiration sounds as though it only applies to the description of the process whereby one focuses on a person who has set a constructive encouraging example. Inspiration (��Blessings��) and Its Relation to Mantras and Oral Transmission
The swing system, controlled by joypad thumbstick, works better than before, and many online features have been improved. Times, Sunday Times

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