Meaning of tick on | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see tick, on.; to continue ticking.
2. To elapse;
   figuratively
3. To continue; to keep occurring.
   broadly, figuratively

Examples

“He shuts off the engine, which ticks on mechanically, cooling down.”

“None of that should affect the beat, or pulse itself, which ticks on regardless.”

“The sun sets and the clock ticks on.”

“Slowly the moments ticked on; once he murmured the name of the girl he loved.”

“Seconds ticked on.”

“But the night ticked on and we soon missed Monk's cleaning.”

“Or we think of an absolute time which ticks on regardless of events, agents, causes and effects.”

“The day ticked on and it was soon time to head back.”

“As time ticked on, with 15 minutes remaining, Billy Gilmour side-footed at Gestsson after breaking into the box from a rare flash of incision.”

“The banner flutters and love of the group / stifles the petty unmanly doubt / which ticks on, a liberal superstition.”

“In that web, my father's pacemaker and our broken human lives ticked on, not in a universe governed by a god whose rules were written on tablets and interpreted by male priests who'd never spent a day changing adult diapers or listening to the moans of a Nancy Cruzan.”

“With the dumb, inchoate misery of a small child's inability to understand its situation or express bereavement, the relentless question ticked on, and on.”

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