ticking
滴答声,滴答,嘀嗒声,滴答滴答
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Definitions
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- : a strong cotton fabric, usually twilled, used especially in making cloth ticks.
- : a similar cloth in satin weave or Jacquard, used especially for mattress covers.
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Examples
If dark matter were to interact with a nuclear clock, the interaction could tweak the clock’s ticking.
That ticking bomb got louder, and my sense of time felt both finite and endless.
Global warming, and the ticking clock to combat it, has also led to a new generation of leaders such as 18-year-old Greta Thunberg.
Despite the cookie deprecation countdown clock ticking, however, at this stage many publishers are hesitant to dive into identifiers.
By listening more closely to the ticking of our internal clocks, researchers expect to uncover novel ways to help everybody get more out of their sleeping and waking lives.
So that was just a ticking time bomb until the Germans had to do something.
He becomes increasingly paranoid by the societal fixtures around him—a ticking clock, a ringing phone.
He set about ticking the boxes required of any self-respecting plutocrat enthusiastically.
A case could be made that Bynes was, in effect, a ticking time bomb.
But in the background, a separate time-bomb is ticking for Israel.
The school buzz died away, and you could hear the ticking of my little clock.
A silence fell between the two men, broken only by the low of the little Sheraton clock upon the mantelshelf.