Sentences with phrase «tick of the second hand»

The play was like a clock, every word spoken was another tick of the second hand.

Just like a second is finished with a tick of the second hand, when we realise the present moment, it has already become the past.

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It's hard to explain the feeling of watching the quarterback, Case Keenum, launch a pigskin prayer with the final seconds ticking off the clock, and then watching Stefon Diggs jump skyward, clutch the ball in his hands, and race to the end - zone as the clock counted down to zero.

https://vine.co/v/OlItmd1vvv9 After the final seconds ticked off the Wildcats» first loss of the season at the hands of Wisconsin, several members...

Robert Cailliau writes that «the clock widget on my computer screen has a second hand that vibrates slightly after each tick, mimicking a defect of cheap mechanical clocks.»

A neutron star's pulses can come at us hundreds of times a second, ticking like a superfast clock with a millisecond hand.

(The corner of the clockface that opens onto the office, second hand ticking by, is a particularly nice touch.)

Even worse, if you take a look at second - hand GT3 prices, it's extremely unlikely the 911 R will show even a single tick of depreciation.

I can hear the second hand of his watch ticking beside my ear.

The Chronograph watch face, for example, looks nearly identical, with the exception that the second - hand subdial disappears and is replaced by a white tick mark that moves around the edge of the screen.

A second - hand armchair has been customised with offcuts of ticking, linen and Bennison fabrics, collected over the years.