How to Use ticktock in a Sentence

ticktock

noun
  • The timeline and ticktock of that commission’s work now stands as a national canon for the events of that day.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 20 Apr. 2021
  • But the cool blue tones of the keyboard and the precise ticktock of the percussion also signaled a new era.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2019
  • Ten-year-old Lewis goes to live with his uncle in a creaky old house that contains a mysterious ticktock noise.
    — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2021
  • His smooth control, the loose, musical roll of his shoulders, the ticktock rhythm of his walk — all signal the dancer within.
    — Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2020
  • Manning is, at times, difficult to hear over the incessant ticktocks and the chiming and clanging on the hour and half-hour.
    — Jay Jones, latimes.com, 29 Oct. 2017
  • The film proceeds with a ticktock, seesaw rhythm, tracking Warner, then KC, as the years grind on.
    — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 31 Aug. 2017
  • The story of Cindy James is another that benefits from a robust, ticktock-style retelling of events.
    — Vulture Editors, Vulture, 12 Feb. 2021
  • The fast-moving, quickly shifting story is worthy of, well, a ticktock — a journalistic term for a timeline-style chronicle of events.
    — Star Tribune, 7 Aug. 2020
  • The ticktock of the raid’s secret planning and execution is exhilarating, but Obamareflects on the cathartic euphoria of the aftermath.
    — Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2020
  • Some of these problems relate to his ticktock of events during the confusing early months of the pandemic and his effort to accentuate the visionary qualities of main characters like Mecher and Dean.
    — Washington Post, 5 May 2021
  • No matter; his developing relationship with Stevie, sketched in a ticktock series of crises and comfortings, is merely a comic foil to the foreground adventures of Jack and Stephanie.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 5 June 2017
  • Cycling at predictable intervals between Keith’s long, interior harangues and his brief, prickly interactions with the director, the play acquires a ticktock rhythm that prevents the buildup of momentum.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2019
  • And because of that, on a practical level, the normal journalistic account of this, the forensic ticktock of when did the abuse begin and what actually happened, was almost impossible to tell — just because nobody would cooperate.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2021

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