Ticktock (Noun)
Meaning
Steady recurrent ticking sound as made by a clock.
Classification
Nouns denoting natural events.
Examples
- The metronome provided a soothing ticktock beat as she began to practice the piano.
- Outside, the wall clock continued to emit a persistent ticktock noise all day.
- His rhythmic dance movements swayed smoothly in time to the sound of the metronome's steady ticktock.
- All I could hear at night in that small bedroom was the unceasing ticktock coming from grandma's clock on the bedside table.
- Even without lights the simple wood hall grandfather's sonorous ticking revealed life remained a steadily cadencing as embodied with ancient echoing metronomic echo emitting steadfast peaceful hypnotic ticktock.