How To Use Like clockwork In A Sentence
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Whether it is all running like clockwork depends on results.
The Sun
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The sports day went like clockwork, with every race starting and finishing on time.
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Like clockwork, the structures form in the afternoon and break down after nightfall.
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Japanese cars in the main seem to run like clockwork.
The Sun
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As usual, though, the moment a plan does not go like clockwork from the outset there are calls for it to be abandoned.
Times, Sunday Times
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She came into season like clockwork, we took her to the stud yard, 15 minutes later she was back in the horsebox and we were on our way home.
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You'll note that in these and many other cases the joy of seeing these works of art appear every month like clockwork is short-lived.
The ADD Blog at Comic Book Galaxy
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True, the lucrative Indian Premier League has been mired in controversies off the cricket field, but its on-field performance — of staging a large number of matches on schedule at different venues — has run like clockwork.
The 'Incompetence Raj' Strikes Again
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Now my day runs like clockwork.
Times, Sunday Times
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Since the recent improvements to the service, the buses are running like clockwork.
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The Olympic village ran like clockwork.
The Sun
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For those of us lucky enough to have been in Beijing, it was the way the whole thing ran like clockwork.
The Sun
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The counterplan was running like clockwork.
The Sun
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All week it worked like clockwork.
FRANKIE: The Autobiography of Frankie Dettori
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Like clockwork, the red light flashed to green and the lock unbolted.
My Fair Succubi
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The Queen's holiday is arranged to go like clockwork, everything pre-planned to the minute.
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Japanese cars in the main seem to run like clockwork.
The Sun
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From the start we were well organised and the whole thing ran like clockwork.
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The deputy noted that a series of three fights in North Facility dormitories started like clockwork five minutes apart.
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A picnic atmosphere prevailed and thankfully everything ran like clockwork, even with a huge entry of over 200 competitors.
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England carried themselves wearily from the beginning, conscious that they had forfeited the game the day before, going through their activities now like clockwork toys winding down.
Times, Sunday Times
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The charity event was well organized and ran like clockwork.
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Like clockwork the three nurses and I followed along with the male radio voice and did a ten-minute exercise routine.
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But, after that, the system at the hospital went like clockwork.
Times, Sunday Times
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The deputy noted that a series of three fights in North Facility dormitories started like clockwork five minutes apart.
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For those of us lucky enough to have been in Beijing, it was the way the whole thing ran like clockwork.
The Sun
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Whether it is all running like clockwork depends on results.
The Sun
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Since the recent improvements to the service, the buses are running like clockwork.
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For years, the last day of the season has run like clockwork.
The Sun
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England carried themselves wearily from the beginning, conscious that they had forfeited the game the day before, going through their activities now like clockwork toys winding down.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Olympic village ran like clockwork.
The Sun
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Her labour was going like clockwork when her waters broke on the evening of her due date.
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Dad's Army told us that in Britain, thank heaven, nothing worked like clockwork.
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Hopefully you'll sort any hitches so the whole wedding runs like clockwork.
The Sun
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A universe that ran like clockwork also evinced design.
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Then, like clockwork, out slid the new issue of The Weekly Standard, which lambastes Mr. Obama's neighborhood as an island of upper-class daffiness – a neat trick, considering that Hyde Park's median household income is substantially lower than both the national and the Chicago median.
Mister Maverick, Meet Da Machine
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In wave pools, the water is chlorinated, the beach is concrete and the waves arrive like clockwork, once every few minutes.
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After all, she has been his forewoman for years, and knows him like clockwork.
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For years, the last day of the season has run like clockwork.
The Sun
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And in the trained-animal world, where turns must go off like clockwork, is little or no space for persuasion.
CHAPTER XXXIII
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With The Instance of the Fingerpost, Pears created a new kind of masterwork-a historical novel constructed intricately to work like clockwork, which glides sequentially from one subjective narrator to another, so that each section unveils new explanations that upend the previous narrator's picture of the characters 'motivations and actions.
The Inverse Square Blog
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Once a year, like clockwork, the Old Delhi dam is opened, flooding the dry riverbeds.
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Whereas Prost had been delayed as the Ferrari mechanics fiddled with the right-rear wheel, Senna's stop went like clockwork.
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All week it worked like clockwork.
FRANKIE: The Autobiography of Frankie Dettori
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Hopefully you'll sort any hitches so the whole wedding runs like clockwork.
The Sun
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They all ran like clockwork and were free.
Times, Sunday Times
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Everything ran like clockwork for the Irish fivesome who had to quickly move on to launches in Belfast, Edinburgh, Manchester and London.
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The Queen's holiday is arranged to go like clockwork, everything pre-planned to the minute.
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These sprout, the hypocotyl thrusts eagerly down into the soil, the epicotyl emerges like clockwork above the soil -- and someone like me comes along and picks it like the weed it is and throws it away.
Chicago Reader
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As usual, though, the moment a plan does not go like clockwork from the outset there are calls for it to be abandoned.
Times, Sunday Times
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The sports day went like clockwork, with every race starting and finishing on time.
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Usually, railway crossings work more or less like clockwork.
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When the mechanical clock arrived, people began thinking of their brains as operating " like clockwork.
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But, after that, the system at the hospital went like clockwork.
Times, Sunday Times
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Now my day runs like clockwork.
Times, Sunday Times
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They all ran like clockwork and were free.
Times, Sunday Times
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The third hole is a par 3, and, like clockwork, there's always a backup on that tee.
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the rocket launch went off like clockwork