On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Ticking. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as tick or sound and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Ticking in a sentence
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Ticking meaning
A strong cotton or linen fabric used to cover pillows and mattresses.
Using Ticking
- The main meaning on this page is: A strong cotton or linen fabric used to cover pillows and mattresses.
- Useful related words include: tick, sound, fabric, cloth.
- In the example corpus, ticking often appears in combinations such as: is ticking, ticking time, ticking down.
Context around Ticking
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 11 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 2 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Ticking
- In this selection, "ticking" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, clock, off, velocity, down, loudly and timebomb stand out and add context to how "ticking" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a crazy ticking clock and a mortgage ticking time bomb. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "ticking" sits close to words such as ariana, bombshell and byte, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with ticking
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
And that probably speaks to velocity ticking down at times. (10 words)
But that is not the managerial box-ticking of diversity casting. (11 words)
Emissions and ecological damage are the potential ticking time bombs here. (11 words)
He told the two officers that if the country had an IGP who could meet with the leader of the opposition party and get a promise that he would be retained when the NDC took power, the government was sitting on a ticking time bomb. (45 words)
Hospital roofs admitting that “30 buildings at 20 different hospitals run by 18 individual NHS trusts” have at least one roof built with a type of cheap concrete that has been labelled “a ticking timebomb”. (35 words)
Can we – before it is too late because the clock is already ticking loudly – find the vision and the actions that unite the independence forces and inspires our fellow citizens to embrace essential change? (34 words)
Can we – before it is too late because the clock is already ticking loudly – find the vision and the actions that unite the independence forces and inspires our fellow citizens to embrace essential change? (34 words)
How Will Butcher React to Knowing He's on a "Crazy Ticking Clock"? (13 words)
Example sentences (20)
Ticking each day off, ticking each box and believing in the guy next to us, building through towards something that is bigger than us that’s coming up, which is the World Cup.
Albert Einstein was the first to suggest that time wasn’t something fixed like the ticking of a clock, but something more flexible like a rubber band.
And that probably speaks to velocity ticking down at times.
As a result, our Pac-12 survival odds have changed for the first time in months, ticking down to five points.
As he prepares his next move, FiveThirtyEight’s polling average shows that his approval numbers are slowly ticking up from where they were last fall.
BBC Radio 4 Today programme, Eluned Morgan said: "We're still talking to the trade unions on this matter, we haven't averted strike action yet, but the clock is ticking.
Botswana's Letsile Tebogo is ticking all the right boxes of being the next Usain Bolt in terms of performances, but he has got a rival to watch out for in Erriyon Knighton.
But in the meantime, the clock is already ticking and you cannot afford to disappoint.
But that is not the managerial box-ticking of diversity casting.
Can we – before it is too late because the clock is already ticking loudly – find the vision and the actions that unite the independence forces and inspires our fellow citizens to embrace essential change?
Current models are ugly and overpriced, used ones are a ticking time bomb of maintenance issues.
Despite the clock ticking down, the Springboks attempted to win another scrum penalty when Willie le Roux called a mark (after a step) and then opted for a scrum.
Emissions and ecological damage are the potential ticking time bombs here.
England lost another man with the clock ticking down as Jack Willis was sin-binned for a dangerous tackle.
Fred is a ticking time bomb of emotions, blowing up at an ignorant waitress, and the vein in Suzanne Clément’s forehead looks ready to burst as she spits out anger.
He said he has spoken to consumer champion Martin Lewis, who on Tuesday said that a mortgage ticking time bomb is now “exploding” and that his previous warnings failed to be heeded.
He told the two officers that if the country had an IGP who could meet with the leader of the opposition party and get a promise that he would be retained when the NDC took power, the government was sitting on a ticking time bomb.
He was sharp in possession and kept Derby ticking along but was eventually replaced in the second half.
Hospital roofs admitting that “30 buildings at 20 different hospitals run by 18 individual NHS trusts” have at least one roof built with a type of cheap concrete that has been labelled “a ticking timebomb”.
How Will Butcher React to Knowing He's on a "Crazy Ticking Clock"?
Common combinations with ticking
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- is ticking 44×
- ticking time 27×
- ticking down 13×
- clock ticking 13×
- ticking off 12×
- ticking over 11×
- ticking on 11×
- was ticking 10×
- ticking up 9×
- ticking for 9×