Several others accurately mimic the ticktock of old-school mechanical metronomes.
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Teams of students from various departments will create an entire watch package, ticktock to strap to packaging.
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The road life and the ticktock of the biological clock are why the best beach volleyball team ever will take a time-out.
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Which brings us back to the ticktock of the clock.
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He hears the rush of centuries-a mere ticktock.
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The ticktock of farm auctions and foreclosures in the heartland, punctuated by the occasional suicide, has seldom let up since the 1980s.
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For long periods, this movement may only be measurable by the hour hand of history, but journalism feels compelled to note every ticktock of the second hand.
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Steady recurrent ticking sound as made by a clock
Tick: make a sound like a clock or a timer; "the clocks were ticking"; "the grandfather clock beat midnight"
Ticktock, a novel by best-selling author Dean Koontz, has as its protagonist a Vietnamese-American named toung/Tommy Phan who one day finds a mysterious doll on his doorstep. He soon discovers that the doll contains an evil creature, which is determined to kill him.
A step-by-step account of how a particular event or phenomenon developed. (courtesy of John E McIntyre)
When a flyer switches the foot being stood on in mid air after being popped by bases.