Sometimes the swinging line, like an inspired ballerina, would take a mighty jump accompanied by rasping earphone sounds, not like tickings of a heart, but rather like a heavy breathing under emotional stress.
Simultaneously the hum became articulate like tickingsof a heart only much faster.
Were they indeed the tickings of a hundred clocks--the fine low inward breathings of Time's children!
At last there was quiet again, the tickings only excepted, which continued low and regular as before.
The prim measurement of your smile, not the wan neglect of cool skin tones or fabric always more suggestive of summer colours, sideway movement of shadow into tickings of a clock.
Almost without a break in the insect-like tickings the reply came: Stand them off; help coming.
Then the young man would get up noiselessly, pick it up, and go through with it into the room from which came the tickings of the telegraph.
I counted again thetickings of the clock, and each swing of the pendulum ended in a bark!
I counted thetickings of its silence, and I counted the tickings of its continuance.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tickings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
