How to Use metronomic in a Sentence

metronomic

adjective

• The metronomic dispersal of outcomes right and left is the result of our current schism, not a salve for it.
  — Reilly Stephens, National Review, 1 Feb. 2018
• The first shot is that of a ticking stopwatch, a motif that draws a clear line between this and the pulsing, metronomic work of Christopher Nolan.
  — Lewis Gordon, Wired, 18 Aug. 2021
• View 65 Photos The metronomic soundtrack didn’t slow Timex much.
  — Car and Driver, 30 Nov. 2016
• Long track tends to attract taller athletes who race a clock with metronomic steadiness.
  — John Branch, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2018
• The sprinklers click a metronomic music of the agricultural West all day long.
  — Christopher Ketcham, Harper's magazine, 24 June 2019
• Without diverging from the metronomic pacing, the swerve puts a little skip in between steps, a lift that’s like a higher note.
  — New York Times, 26 Sep. 2021
• The silence, punctuated by the metronomic crash of the waves, was somehow both calming and ominous.
  — Washington Post, 26 June 2021
• The track could be taken as a calmly metronomic homage to the Beach Boys and Supertramp, complete with vocal harmonies.
  — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2018
• There are the pump jacks scattered across the plains, nodding up and down with metronomic regularity.
  — ProPublica, 10 Mar. 2021
• Given his metronomic production over the past five years, that premise seemed sound and reasonable.
  — Nick Piecoro, azcentral, 31 May 2018
• Like baseball's Mike Trout, Crosby is a metronomic exemplar of all-around skill.
  — Adam Kilgore, chicagotribune.com, 30 Apr. 2018
• Fityan reads the text, his mouth silently forming the words in Arabic while the tip of his cigarette bounces over the syllables with metronomic precision.
  — Elliot Ackerman, Esquire, 23 Mar. 2017
• But the plan, with its metronomic precision, masks something far messier: a rupture to the national psyche.
  — Mark Landler, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2022
• McEnroe’s serve-and-volley game against Borg’s metronomic mastery at the baseline and against Connors’ flat backhand and returns.
  — Howard Fendrich, SFChronicle.com, 4 July 2020
• And all the while, in Tokyo and across Japan, the pandemic worsened, setting records with metronomic regularity.
  — Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2021
• All the while, the trail of migrants into the downtown El Paso courthouse has gone on with metronomic regularity.
  — Washington Post, 24 July 2019
• Stripes suddenly appeared, moved across the mirror, vanished, all in metronomic time.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Aug. 2021
• The firm ground effect parlayed into a metronomic sound emanating from each push-off and release of the cloud component.
  — Adam Chase, Outside Online, 13 Aug. 2021
• Road running rewards a smooth, metronomic stride with no wasted motion.
  — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 27 Dec. 2022
• Nelson sometimes counsels musicians to feel, not count — to disburden themselves of metronomic ideas about tempo and go with the flow.
  — Jody Rosen, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2022
• Same solid drives, same high, metronomic dribble, same deadening retinue of mid-range Js.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2019
• Not until Antonio Banderas arrives to play Maestro, the crucial voice coach who knocks Amos into shape, does this metronomic slog to stardom muster a pulse.
  — Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2018
• Fellow rookie Cooper Hummel marveled at the metronomic nature of Beer’s routine and at-bats.
  — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 22 Apr. 2022
• Mountain time is governed less by minutes or days than by a metronomic knowledge that the landscape that overawes our funny little species predates us, and will outlast us, too.
  — Kyle Paoletta, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2020
• Meanwhile, Chara played with standard metronomic efficiency with his new team, the Caps needing to suit up only eight blue liners all season.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 14 May 2021
• And the alien organisms continued to arrive, year after year, with an almost metronomic predictability — all the way up to that steamy Wednesday morning on Lake St. Clair in 1988.
  — Dan Egan, Discover Magazine, 2 Jan. 2019
• Sharapova remains Williams’s most reliable tennis muse, bringing out the very best in Williams’s power game on a metronomic basis.
  — Christopher Clarey, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2019
• The naturalism demanded by the script—all that fumbling and crosstalk—requires razor-sharp timing, and Simpson and Davis have honed theirs to metronomic precision.
  — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2021
• New species emerge every 2 million years, on average, in a metronomic rhythm tapped out by the random nature of genetic mutations.
  — Quanta Magazine, 5 May 2015
• Car bombs go off with almost metronomic regularity, each crunching blast a fresh bulletin from hell.
  — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2018

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