I ticked off Harry today because he announced he was present.

I ticked three things off the list in my head, and had only four chores left to do.

A decade ago, I was a backpacker entirely reliant on the railways as a means to see Britain, and with castles as my destination. Via trains alone, I was able to tick off nearly all of the castles that my English Heritage annual pass afforded me.

In a lengthy missive dispatched the next afternoon, Wheeler ticked off a laundry list of reasons why he could not obey Bragg's order.

It really ticks me off when people don't use proper punctuation.

Fred was ticked off by the teacher for playing around in class.

Having ticked us off in this way, the rascal had an elaborate description of rails at the pit mouth, and of a zigzag excavation by which funicular trains were to burrow into the earth.

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