tick away in a sentence
Examples
- As this woeful season ticks away, it is apparent this one is Ditka's last one in New Orleans.
- As the months tick away, will the $ 4.9 million initiative touch hearts and minds and produce concrete results?
- Muir works efficiently under the 24-hour deadline, which for us ticks away in two hours but feels like 48.
- Investors have bid up the shares of these companies as the time to the millennium's immutable deadline ticks away.
- "There's a certain Zen-ness and serenity to watching the miles tick away, like 150 miles to Des Moines ."
- And it chronicles workers'cynicism toward both GM and the Canadian auto workers'union as the plant's last days tick away.
- The clock always seems to run out on the Sun Devils, and the season is beginning to tick away.
- At the same time, the time pressure is growing ever more intense as the weeks tick away before Election Day.
- Monday's bombing _ and the prospect of Israeli retaliation _ raised tensions as the clock ticks away on Clinton's term.
- Li ended up watching the bulk of his prime athletic years, including 1992 and the Barcelona Olympics, agonizingly tick away.