Example sentences for: clockwork

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

  • Film director Stanley Kubrick died . Obituaries recalled his movies' eight Academy Awards, focusing on Dr. Strangelove , A Clockwork Orange , and 2001: A Space Odyssey , also mentioning Lolita and The Shining . Commentators debated the significance of the bleak fantasies in which he portrayed human recklessness, madness, brutality, murder, and nuclear holocaust.

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

  • 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.


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