How to Use clockwork in a Sentence

clockwork

noun

• Wind the clock back far enough and the clockwork goes awry.
  — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
• Like clockwork, the Great Plains see scores of twisters sweep across the springtime prairie.
  — Matthew Cappucci, BostonGlobe.com, 7 June 2018
• Like clockwork, Buster dances near the door at the same time every evening.
  — Suzanne Baker, chicagotribune.com, 18 June 2021
• Trevor Baylis was the creator of the clockwork or wind-up radio.
  — kansascity, 10 Mar. 2018
• Like clockwork, Bobbi LaNea appears to take over the dash and rap her part of the song.
  — Samantha Chery, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2023
• The 72-hour streamlined process that runs like clockwork is set.
  — Georgann Yara, The Arizona Republic, 6 Aug. 2021
• The time constraint forced me to a an almost clockwork pace.
  — Graeme McMillan, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Mar. 2018
• Like clockwork, at the change of every season, I get hit with a cold, and my skin freaks out.
  — Bella Cacciatore, Glamour, 30 Sep. 2019
• Like clockwork, Burrow would drop back and find Chase on a go route down the right sideline.
  — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 9 Feb. 2022
• Every fall, like clockwork, a new iPhone is birthed unto the world.
  — Michael Calore, Wired, 12 Oct. 2020
• Just like clockwork, the emails, tweets and Facebook posts start flowing.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 14 Dec. 2022
• The biggest jump, like clockwork, seems to come over the holidays, which makes sense.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Jan. 2024
• Every week, like clockwork, the two of you spend hours trying to decide what to watch.
  — Lauren Matthews, Good Housekeeping, 27 Sep. 2022
• Scores and scores of new TV shows and movies got released every month, like clockwork.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 3 June 2022
• Like clockwork, his barstools would prop up the tired and the hungry line of workers just getting off their shift.
  — CBS News, 24 Sep. 2021
• Like clockwork, Randy returns home from work around 6 p.m. on weeknights and turns on his TV to catch up on the day’s news.
  — Jennifer Van Grove, sandiegouniontribune.com, 20 Oct. 2017
• Check-in and checkout usually run like clockwork: between 2 and 4 p.m. on the front end and around 11 a.m. or noon on the back end.
  — Sarah Firshein, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2020
• Like clockwork, the briefing team presents, and the senior leader in the room listens and asks questions.
  — John Kroger, Wired, 20 Aug. 2020
• And like clockwork, Cruz heated up as the weather did, batting .256 with six homers in May.
  — Wilson Moore, The Indianapolis Star, 14 June 2022
• The Romans were onto something, as the midday slump seems to roll in like clockwork at around 3 p.m.
  — Byalexa Mikhail, Fortune Well, 28 June 2023
• Like clockwork, the internet had some thoughts on Spot's new gig as a police dog.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 26 Nov. 2019
• That's how things go in the clockwork cosmos, and yet once in a while, there's poetry in the machinery.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 10 Aug. 2017
• For the last couple of months, Emma Penczek’s schedule was like clockwork.
  — Timothy Dashiell, Baltimore Sun, 16 June 2023
• Like clockwork, Apple has let loose this year’s version of last year’s smartphone, the iPhone 13.
  — Patrick Lucas Austin, Time, 21 Sep. 2021
• For an instant, the whole mad clockwork of the universe will reveal itself.
  — Author: Bloomberg View, Alaska Dispatch News, 20 Aug. 2017
• Our first season of watching with the camera was like clockwork.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Apr. 2022
• The breakthrough was the Harrington clockwork drill from 1864.
  — Roslyn Sulcas, New York Times, 7 June 2018
• Water glasses are refilled like clockwork, and the servers know their stuff.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2023
• The same pattern unfolded at the debate, like clockwork.
  — Axios, 12 Sep. 2024
• Like clockwork, each evening, up to hundreds of these fruit-eating flying foxes, which can reach up to five feet in wingspan, leave the mainland palms for their tiny offshore island habitats, which conveniently dot the coast just beyond the resort.
  — Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 2 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 1 Nov 2024