Sentence examples for gone like clockwork from inspiring English sources

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

After weeks of preparation the delivery of the septuplets had gone like clockwork, starting at 10.43am with Baby A, and ending just four minutes later with Baby G.

Since it has already gone like clockwork four times (each abduction netting them a cool quarter of a million dollars without a hitch or an injury), they are unprepared when the fifth couple on their hit list, Will and Karen Jennings Stuart Townsendd and Charlize Theron), an anesthesiologist and his wife, fight back.

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

It all went like clockwork, according to age group.

The tides of tourists come and go like clockwork.

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

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

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

That day it all went like clockwork against two other brilliant horses.

"It would take a minimum of five years and nine months if everything goes like clockwork," Mr. Schaeffer said.