How to Use clockwork in a Sentence

clockwork

noun

• The next morning, like clockwork, a boat pulls up and the game takes a turn.
  — Nick Caruso, TVLine, 23 Oct. 2024
• Like clockwork, the adults grab their seat and linger around a dinner table, a fire pit, or la sala to enjoy the sobremesa hasta que el cuerpo aguante.
  — Jasmin Velasco, refinery29.com, 22 Oct. 2024
• Wind the clock back far enough and the clockwork goes awry.
  — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
• Like clockwork, the last of the crew would fly off on August 15.
  — Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 6 June 2017
• 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

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024