Sentence examples for clockwork from inspiring English sources

Our neighbours (parents of my best friend, Lindy) were probably my role models; they seemed to speak in hushed tones, lived by what appeared to be clockwork routine and never displayed emotion of any sort in public, unlike our volcanic household.

Once a year, like clockwork during the third week of March, millions of Americans mechanically pour their hard-earned wages into NCAA tournament pools they have virtually no chance of winning.

Perhaps it was hard to pronounce, perhaps he just thought it was a bit of fun, but the truth is that the guffaw of laughter from the other kids, regular as clockwork, was a daily ordeal.

To make all this run like clockwork takes a team of ten computer-wielding operations planners and 200 unskilled workers, who make up the loads in the right sequence at a warehouse down the road.

Analysis of the resulting images, carried out in conjunction with Allan Bromley, a computer scientist at Sydney University, found the exact position of each gear, and suggested that Price was wrong in several respects.In this section The clockwork computer Better dead than GM-fed?

Like clockwork, I arrive five minutes late for my 4pm Japanese lesson.

Nearly all the dangerous work is now mechanised, and the supervision is done not at the drill but in a comfortable control room that is well out of harm's way.Things still do not go completely like clockwork, however.

His two arms looked normal, but they would fly out randomly, like a clockwork doll's.

Moreover, employing a jet aircraft as a reusable initial stage for launching a satellite has another advantage an aircraft could take off discreetly from any military airfield, and then make a secret satellite launch from anywhere within range.In this section The clockwork computer Better dead than GM-fed?

The Ubuntu developer has delivered a major new version of its flagship product like clockwork every six months.

In the event, the transition to the euro went like clockwork.