Example sentences for: clockwork

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

  • I should not like to have to face the task of listing all the adverbs that might be used with the verb run , even if it is restricted to cars: smoothly, quietly, silently, uninterruptedly, fitfully, intermittently, efficiently, well, faultlessly, beautifully, perfectly, poorly, badly, sluggishly, economically, swiftly, rapidly, quickly --and then one must be prepared to add the multi-word phrasal modifiers, like without a hitch, as if it would never stop, like a clock, like clockwork , etc.

  • Every year, like clockwork, we build between 1 million and 2 million new houses, the majority of which are in master-planned communities, some of which, like Sun Cities, are much larger.

  • In A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess invented an entire dialect (Nadsat, a Russified version of English): I could sort of slooshy myself making special sort of shoms and govoreeting slovos like Dear dead idlewilds, rot not in variform guises and all that cal.

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

  • Let's say we subject him to behavior modification of the Clockwork Orange sort, putting him through some Pavlovian ordeal that takes the devil out of him.


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