[
US
/ˈkɫɑˌkwɝk/
]
[ UK /klˈɒkwɜːk/ ]
[ UK /klˈɒkwɜːk/ ]
NOUN
- any mechanism of geared wheels that is driven by a coiled spring; resembles the works of a mechanical clock
How To Use clockwork In A Sentence
- Every fifteen minutes a train made its appearance, tooting and clacking, regular as clockwork.
- The foxtrot is not a flashy dance; its motor impulse is more akin to clockworks than, say, the hip-driven stampede nature of the samba. Stars That Truly Dance
- Hopefully you'll sort any hitches so the whole wedding runs like clockwork. The Sun
- After the clockwork of the watch was cleaned the watch kept perfect time.
- The Olympic village ran like clockwork. The Sun
- He was the talisman, the cog in the clockwork that made the whole mechanism function.
- Her labour was going like clockwork when her waters broke on the evening of her due date.
- To me the shape is more like an orrery, a clockwork model of the solar system.
- The company is filled with superb technologists who are prepared to obsolete products in their prime and to churn out new ones with clockwork regularity.
- These Ancients, more ancient than ours but still not literally ancient, saw the world not as a giant clockwork but as an organism.
