How to Use clockwork in a Sentence

clockwork

noun

• This show has to run like clockwork.
  — Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 14 Mar. 2026
• This show has to run like clockwork.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 12 Mar. 2026
• This show has to run like clockwork.
  — Beatrice Verhoeven, HollywoodReporter, 11 Mar. 2026
• Thing rebels against his master and yanks out his clockwork heart.
  — Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2025
• But the exact words, the same fear, came back like clockwork.
  — Patricia Arboleda, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2025
• The text message comes in like clockwork.
  — Kevin Kurz, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
• Like clockwork at least once a month, there was a new track, a new idea, a new spark.
  — Katie Atkinson, Billboard, 13 Jan. 2026
• Like clockwork at least once a month, there was a new track, a new idea, a new spark.
  — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 15 Jan. 2026
• The next morning, like clockwork, a boat pulls up and the game takes a turn.
  — Nick Caruso, TVLine, 23 Oct. 2024
• Brave souls can press their ear to its trunk and hear the tick, tick, tick of the clockwork heart.
  — Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2025
• Like clockwork, the mom needed to decide for her son this year.
  — Brian Anthony Hernandez, PEOPLE, 8 Nov. 2025
• Like clockwork, Buster dances near the door at the same time every evening.
  — Suzanne Baker, chicagotribune.com, 18 June 2021
• But every night, like clockwork, the cats came by for mealtime.
  — Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 June 2025
• The 72-hour streamlined process that runs like clockwork is set.
  — Georgann Yara, The Arizona Republic, 6 Aug. 2021
• Like clockwork, the price may double, or even triple, before the day ends.
  — Maria Williams, USA Today, 4 Nov. 2025
• Like clockwork—you’re there without fail every year, no?
  — Hazlitt, 8 Oct. 2025
• Trevor Baylis was the creator of the clockwork or wind-up radio.
  — kansascity, 10 Mar. 2018
• But just like clockwork, fashion always has a way of circling back.
  — Jeaneen Russell, People.com, 24 Aug. 2025
• But just like clockwork, fashion always has a way of circling back.
  — Jeaneen Russell, PEOPLE, 27 Apr. 2026
• Like clockwork, the last of the crew would fly off on August 15.
  — Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 6 June 2017
• Every fall, like clockwork, a new iPhone is birthed unto the world.
  — Michael Calore, Wired, 12 Oct. 2020
• Our first season of watching with the camera was like clockwork.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Apr. 2022
• Every week, like clockwork, the two of you spend hours trying to decide what to watch.
  — Lauren Matthews, Good Housekeeping, 27 Sep. 2022
• Water glasses are refilled like clockwork, and the servers know their stuff.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2023
• Many thinkers suggested that the universe runs like a mighty clockwork.
  — Dan Falk, Scientific American, 27 July 2021
• The new warden made Tina's release work like clockwork.
  — Jesse Sarles, CBS News, 1 June 2026
• 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
• Like clockwork, there’s a viral tweet about the song that shows up on my newsfeed every month or so.
  — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 24 Apr. 2026
• Like clockwork, the Great Plains see scores of twisters sweep across the springtime prairie.
  — Matthew Cappucci, BostonGlobe.com, 7 June 2018