Example Sentences

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“I feel like the fouls I got were kind of tick-tack fouls that I shouldn’t have done,” Reese said.

From Washington Post • Jan. 15, 2023

All the sounds were of water: the tick-tack of melting snow hitting tin roofs, the popple of gravity-fed pipes pouring mountain water into troughs.

From Washington Post • Jan. 14, 2022

“Don’t let games end by keep calling tick-tack fouls and making -- just don’t make no sense.”

From Washington Post • Dec. 12, 2018

"He looks like a man sitting on an infernal machine, listening to the tick-tack of the clock-work," she reflected.

From The Duke Decides by Hill, Headon

In the chamber for an interval could be heard only the measured tick-tack of the cumbrous clock and the wheezing of the asthmatic servant, who dozed, leaning against the sideboard.

From Whirlpools A Novel of Modern Poland by Sienkiewicz, Henryk