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• Some old model trains have clockwork drives.From the entry drive
• "Construction in string and clockwork" took first prize.From the entry construction
• Thanks to the volunteers, the event ran like clockwork.From the entry like clockwork
• He could barely see daylight through the complex clockwork.From the entry daylight
• Like clockwork, she reached for the haegeum that leaned against the main counter top.2017, Young-Im Lee, Forgotten Reflections: A War Story. From the entry haegeum
• GPC Aus meets run like atomic clockwork and with a great general buzz.2017, gzk, Reddit. From the entry like atomic clockwork
• Buff Man repeats his street workouts and crack smoking for months like clockwork.2013, William A. Gonzalez, Black Bubblegum, page 121. From the entry street workout
• Is it a mechanical, or a man in a clockwork suit?2012, Cindy Spencer Pape, Moonlight & Mechanicals, →ISBN, page 90. From the entry mechanical
• This one took reality to be a large machine, a ‘clockwork orange', an automaton.1999, Diederik Aerts, Jan Broekaert, Ernest Mathijs, Einstein Meets Magritte: An Interdisciplinary Reflection: The White Book of "Einstein…. From the entry clockwork orange
• There have always been cheap clockwork animals in toyshops since clockwork was utilised for making moving toys.1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 51. From the entry toyshop
• In English, the verbs are as regular as bran flakes and conjugate as easily as well-greased Swiss clockworks.2007, David F. Latham, “English Difficult? Au Contraire”, in American Rambler: 48 Original, Hilarious, Laugh-Out-Loud Newspapers Columns…. From the entry bran flake
• Especially since, like atomic clockwork, regardless of WHAT I say or write, you ALWAYS go into this Jabine "mode" of yours.1998 September 18, ojokay, “SHIVELY vs. BOSCO”, in alt.fan.oj-simpson (Usenet). From the entry like atomic clockwork
• Protoculture supply was dwindling, the galaxywide war running down like clockwork as both sides' resources and infrastructures declined.1989, Jack McKinney, The End of the Circle, →ISBN, page 203. From the entry galaxywide
• The story takes place in London and involves human-fish hybrids and a brilliant clockwork maker whose father had been experimenting with building automata, clockwork humans.2013, Lois H. Gresh, The Mortal Instruments Companion, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 132. From the entry clockpunk
• The existence of chaos does ineffectuate the Newtonian image of a clockwork universe and the Laplacean dream of a completely controllable world.2006, William A. Dembski, Darwin's Nemesis. From the entry ineffectuate
• Contrarily, he may be saying, “Look what your computerized, commodified society has made of me—a clockwork orange, for all appearances organic but mechanical."1996, Mark Dery, Escape Velocity. From the entry clockwork orange
• A clockwork model of an ostrich pulling a wickerwork governess-cart; the cart had a rear driver's seat and was decorated with poker-work.1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 84. From the entry pokerwork
• The mock heraldic strains of the Game of Thrones theme, borrowed straight from Monty Python’s Holy Grail, accompany a nifty dragon’s eye view of a beautifully wrought clockwork Thronesiverse.2017 November 25, Patrick Freyne, “The TV theme songs that make you drool with pleasure”, in The Irish Times. From the entry Thronesiverse
• No, they had to go back further and write about clockpunk: hackers in Da Vinci's time making things run on springs and gears and other clockwork.2011, Ted Stoltz, Universal Serendipity, Lulu Press, →ISBN, pages 43–44. From the entry clockpunk

Meaning of clockwork

1. noun A mechanism powered by a coiled spring and regulated by some form of escapement; the power is transmitted through toothed gearwheels and used to drive a mechanical clock, toy, or other device.
2. noun The action of behaving mechanically in the manner of a clock.
3. adjective Driven by clockwork.

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How do you use clockwork in a sentence?

Clockwork is used as a noun and adjective. For example: “Some old model trains have clockwork drives.”

What is a short sentence with clockwork?

“Some old model trains have clockwork drives.”

What does clockwork mean?

Clockwork means a mechanism powered by a coiled spring and regulated by some form of escapement; the power is transmitted through toothed gearwheels and used to drive a mechanical clock, toy, or other device.