How To Use Ticktock In A Sentence

  • The ticktock of the clock on the wall mirrored the sound of my heart. Haven
  • I could hear the clock on the wall ticktocking.
  • You have been doing some reporting on what we call the ticktock and specifically his wife, Elizabeth? CNN Transcript Jan 30, 2008
  • The clamorous ticktock, ticktock of his watch would have put any self-respecting alarm clock to shame. THE LONELY SEA
  • Politico put it in a ticktock of the ticktocks, administration officials hoped to convey that U.S. News
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  • The ticktock of the grandfather clock was slightly unnerving. THE KILL CLAUSE
  • Both newsweeklies, "TIME" and "Newsweek," have ticktocks, as they call them, what-went-wrong accounts that -- and both make the point, which I haven't seen made that often in the past, that the president doesn't like bad news, that aides fear to tell him that things are going badly. CNN Transcript Sep 12, 2005
  • And we'll hopefully have more for you on that tomorrow when Karen -- when Karen ticktocks. CNN Transcript Aug 9, 2001
  • Because, as part of a remarkable public relations campaign, the White House released a three-page "ticktock," a newspaper term of art for a minute-by-minute reconstruction of how momentous events unfolded. NYT > Home Page
  • Kneeling to cut the cords of newspaper bundles, TickTock, clerking in his father's store, grinned up.
  • I've been getting many questions from the press, as is appropriate at a time like this, for what the press calls ticktock, or what people understand as, "Tell us everything that happened and every step along the way, how decisions were made," which of course an issue of very important historical value. CNN Transcript Mar 20, 2003
  • The term tiki-taka (ticktock) comes from the sound of a metronome. The Sun
  • First, recall Intel's "ticktock" product-and-process cadence, a term that company President and Chief Executive Officer Paul Otellini used in 2006. The Gadgeteer
  • Fully dressed, she lay atop the bedclothes clutching a windup alarm clock with double brass hemispheres on top, registering its hypertensive ticktock like the pulse of a mechanical hummingbird.
  • It’s one of those stories that breaks ground, and then all the details and ticktocks and news breaks come piling in afterward, usually after they get some kind of independent confirmation. Foggy Bottom, Top
  • Those ticktocks, and those trenchant second-day stories. At Magazines, It's 2.0 Steps Forward, 1.0 Step Back
  • The ticktock of the grandfather clock was slightly unnerving. THE KILL CLAUSE
  • The clamorous ticktock, ticktock of his watch would have put any self-respecting alarm clock to shame. THE LONELY SEA

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