Значения для термина "ticking like" отсутствуют.
1 Within forty-five minutes my heart was ticking like a live bomb.
2 Presently there arose from within a ticking like the love-making of the grasshopper.
3 The clock was ticking like a heavy chap's footstep downstairs in the kitchen.
4 All along, though, Fenring's deadly plot had been ticking like clockwork.
5 The island was humming and ticking like a watch with insect-noises: otherwise the deadly silence held.
6 They see the redeemed United States running deftly in its jewelled sockets, ticking like a watch.
7 We return to the table, me behind her, her ravishing ass ticking like a metronome set high.
8 Those rattled and hummed, ticking like a windup clock, then exploding with a maraca burst before starting over again.
9 But the radiator was a little spout of hell, rusty water flooding out and the engine ticking like a time bomb.
10 A UN aid official reported that famine was ticking like a time bomb in the country and could explode at any time.
11 Somewhere the sound of a grandfather clock, its ticking like the beating of some heart, echoed through the seeming emptiness of the house.
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