Sentence examples for go like clockwork from inspiring English sources

The tides of tourists come and go like clockwork.

Everything had to go like clockwork for us to reach the summit.

Reliability is for trains to run on time, clocks to go like clockwork, and banks to be, er, trustworthy.

Romney alternatives seem to come and go like clockwork: over the past six months, three people Rick Perry, Herman Cain, and Newt Gingrich led Romney in the R.C.P. polling average for some period of time.

The unspoken message to the IOC is: "If you go to Madrid or Istanbul you risk disaster; if you come to Tokyo you know everything will go like clockwork".

From that point onward, though, the system went like clockwork.

It all went like clockwork, according to age group.

In truth, though, the next half-hour went like clockwork.

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

de Montaigu, A., Toth, R. & Coupland, G. Plant development goes like clockwork.

Every finger is crossed, but so far it's gone like clockwork.