Sentence examples for ticking like clockwork from inspiring English sources

He replied, with that opaque courtesy beloved of both Chinese officials and Whitehall mandarins, that it could not be done.He was a figure who might have been at home in the Middle Kingdom, where professional scholar-officials, with the equivalent of his double starred firsts in English and law from Cambridge, kept the vast realm ticking like clockwork.

The minutes ticked like hours.

It happens again and again--like clockwork.

Do ticks LIKE Lyme disease?

But the production ticked away with clockwork precision.

Minutes tick by like hours.

Every day, like clockwork.

"Like clockwork," he said.

Disaster, like clockwork, is averted.

It worked like clockwork".

Transformations occur like clockwork.