tick-tick

There was only the tick-tick of engines cooling and the sound of a wind kicking up.

Starcraft II: Devils’ Due Christie Golden 2011

There was only the tick-tick of engines cooling and the sound of a wind kicking up.

Starcraft II: Devils’ Due Christie Golden 2011

The tick-tick dance was never-ending, like a conjurer's dance or a warrior's dance.

The Cool Aunt 2010

Even upstairs, even over the sounds of TV football and uncles coughing up their lungs, she could hear the tick-tick dancing of that dog on the kitchen tile.

The Cool Aunt 2010

The house was still except for the quick tick-tick of the second hand on my mother's alarm clock on her nightstand.

Deborah Jiang Stein: It's All in the Attitude 2009

The only sound was the tick-tick of an iris-shaped clock and, somewhere outside, Aunt Js pleasant song as she puttered around the yard.

Burned Ellen Hopkins 2008

As soon as you feel the tick-tick of the bottom, tighten up by reeling, but don't just crank it back in.

How to Fish Small Jigs to Catch More Trout 2005

The timer on this oven is manual, the old twist-dial tick-tick type.

What I cooked last night. 2005

The timer on this oven is manual, the old twist-dial tick-tick type.

Archive 2005-11-01 2005

Gradually, though, the ear made out, in the conglomerate of noise, a host of separate noises infinitely multiplied: the sharp tick-tick of surface-picks, the dull thud of shovels, their muffled echoes from the depths below.

Australia Felix 2003