Significados de steady tick em inglês

From the living room came the steady tick of the seven-day clock.

Inside the box you can hear a gentle but steady tick, tick, tick.

The only sound was the steady tick of a cuckoo clock on the wall.

Our instinct is to regard time as eternal, absolute, immutable-nothingcan disturb its steady tick.

For a few moments more nothing was audible but the steady tick-tick of the clock.

Cars continued to come up the steep incline from Marlborough Street at steady tick-tock intervals.

And then again there was a silence, the feeble plash of water, the steady tick of chronometers.

In moments, the steady tick-tick-tick of the antique grandfather clock in the corner began to grate on his nerves.

The only sounds were the hissing of steam and the steady tick... tick... tick of the Pontiac's fried engine.

For a little while the silence of the room was unbroken, save for the steady tick-tock of a great clock in one corner.

I had to tackle him down because in the tunnel under the Sound of his cowardly pounding footsteps I heard a steady tick-tick-tick.

Then I crawled back into bed, pulled the blankets up, and lay there shivering, listening to the steady tick of sleet on the windows.

There was another silence, measured by the steady tick of the rain against the window, and, at intervals, by the snipping sound of Ally's scissors.

A grandfather clock stood sentry at the far end of the corridor, its slow, steady ticking the only sound in the crushing stillness.

"Seems more cheerful like," observed the caretaker, as the steady tick-tack began to sound through the quiet room.