Example sentences for: clockwork

How can you use “clockwork” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Every few years, like clockwork, the pop-music industry presents to the American public for its delectation a rock star so base, so vile, so offensive to common decency, that he must be stifled.

  • The director of A Clockwork Orange , 2001: A Space Odyssey , and Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb was universally hailed for a famously uncompromising vision.

  • The tight, clockwork construction of his early masterpiece, the heist drama The Killing , is gloriously in sync--and then bitterly at odds--with the robbery's unraveling.

  • The sky went from being a perfect clockwork centered on Earth to a fairly shabby neighborhood in which we were a minor resident.

  • You’ll find many amusing exhibits of street games, clockwork figures, dolls, and teddy bears to bring back memories of your own youth.


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