He started by ticking off a long list of "irritants," ending with the ramming of a Russian submarine by a U.S. sub.
Each taxicab is fitted with a meter ticking off the fare due.
I have nothing wrong with the "let them know you're there in the first few minutes" approach, but injuring an opponent surely warrants more punishment than a light ticking off?
Seven more days, he thought, lightly ticking off the second square, which was filled with notes on his work for the day.
I hope that once the Secretariat is re-established, the members of the Central Committee and the State Council will set an example by solving problems collectively and stop the practice of just ticking off documents in their separate offices.
Rather, the researchers have determined that the neuron signals were marking intervals of time, ticking off time-stamps down to tens of milliseconds.
"She's pretty, she's nice, she's intuitive," Robin said, casually ticking off the qualities.
