How to Use clockwork in a Sentence

clockwork

noun

• Like clockwork, Buster dances near the door at the same time every evening.
  — Suzanne Baker, chicagotribune.com, 18 June 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Our first season of watching with the camera was like clockwork.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Apr. 2022
• Water glasses are refilled like clockwork, and the servers know their stuff.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2023
• And like clockwork, the progressive mob has set on Kyrsten Sinema.
  — Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 14 Oct. 2021
• Like clockwork, fellow Clippers fans swoop in and help.
  — Mirjam Swanson, Orange County Register, 31 Jan. 2024
• To pair with tutu skirts and white tights, the hair and makeup channeled ballerinas, who took to the stage like clockwork.
  — Essence, 26 Jan. 2024
• Many thinkers suggested that the universe runs like a mighty clockwork.
  — Dan Falk, Scientific American, 27 July 2021
• It’s like clockwork, with one exception: The British Open is one year behind.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2021
• Like clockwork, a moving truck hit an overpass in Boston during one of the busiest move-in days in the region.
  — Spencer Buell, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Sep. 2022
• Like clockwork, the Rebels went into Tuscaloosa and were manhandled like a rag doll, losing 42-21 in a game that wasn't even that close.
  — Scooby Axson, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2021
• Like clockwork, the leopard seal arrived in the lagoon just before low tide.
  — Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 9 Mar. 2022
• And like clockwork, the courts or the military could be counted on to intervene.
  — Grant Peck and Chris Blake, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Oct. 2020
• And, just like clockwork, here comes Los Angeles for a three-game series.
  — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Sep. 2021
• Picking a wide receiver is like clockwork for the Packers in the second round.
  — Christopher Kuhagen, Journal Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2023
• Like clockwork, Caleb would be ready to spend afternoons with Akordor when the school day was done.
  — Tatyana Turner, chicagotribune.com, 20 Jan. 2022
• Just like clockwork, Lulu would sound the wakeup call each morning at the bay encouraging us to head down to the beach for a walk.
  — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 18 Apr. 2021
• In a concert that lasted three hours, Swift, 33, made night one of her three-show Arlington tour stop look like clockwork.
  — Tommy Cummings, Dallas News, 2 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024