ticking

So that was just a ticking time bomb until the Germans had to do something.

He becomes increasingly paranoid by the societal fixtures around him—a ticking clock, a ringing phone.

He set about ticking the boxes required of any self-respecting plutocrat enthusiastically.

A case could be made that Bynes was, in effect, a ticking time bomb.

But in the background, a separate time-bomb is ticking for Israel.

The school buzz died away, and you could hear the ticking of my little clock.

A silence fell between the two men, broken only by the low ticking of the little Sheraton clock upon the mantelshelf.

There was a silence, only broken by the monotonous ticking of the carved Swiss clock and the deep sobs of the kneeling girl.

Down the block, a taxi that had been parked with meter ticking across from Engel's apartment-hotel drew away slowly.

The ticking in this case should be boiled in a wash-boiler, and the filling is to be rinsed before drying.