Sentence examples for clockwork around from inspiring English sources

In Florida, absentee-ballot scandals seem to arrive like clockwork around election time.

A time comes when the groups that like clockwork appear around the shed have stopped appearing like clockwork around the shed.

Time, its powers confined to earthly courses,       can never bring an end to that,         so has instead brought low Whittinghame, the stately pile       he left behind, stripping it to barracks then apartments       resigned beyond bracken; symbolic of an Isle       in decline, where a sham sun drags shadows       clockwork around a dial.

That famed but always receding "right time" to end a relationship never, his characters come to realise, arrives: "When is it ever right, to smash people up?" They remain baffled, isolated within their relentlessly churning thoughts, but like their author, they're gaining in empathy for the clockwork soldiers around them.

Every year, like clockwork, people around us vow to eat and cook better the next year.

Dinnertime, by contrast, comes around like clockwork.

Back in my elementary school days the dreaded 'Field Day' came around like clockwork every June.

The backdrop is a strangely steampunk future, a city like something out of Metropolis but full of steam technology and clockwork gadgets revolving around the motor industry and a population whose only relief is an obsession with cars and rallying.

It's like clockwork; seventh, eighth inning comes around and Soriano goes from an 0-2 countoto a walk, Jeter takes a great at-bat, I smoke a ball in the hole and it goes off the glove, Bernie steps up and hits the home run.

Like clockwork each year, starting around Valentine's Day on 14 February and peaking around St Patrick's Day on 17 March through early April, hundreds of thousands of sandhill cranes fly to the Big Bend in Nebraska's Platte River, turning a rather unassuming part of the US Midwest into the setting for one of North America's greatest wildlife spectacles.

McLorin Salvant introduced the song as "the first thing I wrote I didn't completely hate," and her voice curled around a clockwork bassline, acrobatically twisting up and down the register as the song picked up steam.