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like clockwork

ADVERB
  1. with regularity and precision
    the rocket launch went off like clockwork

How To Use like clockwork In A Sentence

  • Hopefully you'll sort any hitches so the whole wedding runs like clockwork. The Sun
  • The Olympic village ran like clockwork. The Sun
  • Her labour was going like clockwork when her waters broke on the evening of her due date.
  • Dad's Army told us that in Britain, thank heaven, nothing worked like clockwork.
  • Hopefully you'll sort any hitches so the whole wedding runs like clockwork. The Sun
  • A universe that ran like clockwork also evinced design.
  • 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
  • In wave pools, the water is chlorinated, the beach is concrete and the waves arrive like clockwork, once every few minutes.
  • After all, she has been his forewoman for years, and knows him like clockwork.
  • For years, the last day of the season has run like clockwork. The Sun
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