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Example sentences for: clockwork
How can you use “clockwork” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Well, I'm off to bed now, for good re-read of Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange (1962).
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.
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.
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.
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