Sentence examples for As regular as clockwork from inspiring English sources

Once as regular as clockwork, he now is prone to accidents.

Needless to say, her pleasure is water-based — in the bath, every day, as regular as clockwork, with an egg timer placed nearby to hurry her along.

Almost as regular as clockwork, Owen's name lights up social media when he is in the box - and so it was when Manchester United hosted Sheffield United in the third round of the FA Cup.

These changes can be followed by studying ice cores taken in Antarctica.According to Dr Ruddiman, the changes seen in the cores are as regular as clockwork until about 8,000 years ago.

Since then, it's hard to find a case of women being stopped from breastfeeding in Scotland, unlike England in particular, where they seem to crop up as regular as clockwork.

Lots of people will point to their own experience and say that they "know" it happens, and then tell you that they are as regular as clockwork - so who's doing the shifting?

Rather, in regular-as-clockwork annual speeches, Mr. Obama has simply delayed or slowed troop withdrawals.

Thomas de Quincey once remarked that Kant's regular-as-clockwork walks through Königsberg provided a concrete metaphor for his notoriously abstract, systematic philosophy.

Brookner's 22nd novel arrives, regular as clockwork and twice as delicate.

The animal would win, regular as clockwork.

Regular as clockwork, he comes here.