Examples of “clockwork” in a Sentence

noun A mechanism driven by a wound spring and gears, used in clocks, toys, and other devices.

• The museum displayed a tiny music box with a delicate clockwork inside.
• When the clockwork finally ran down, the little bird stopped singing.
• The old toy soldier marched thanks to a simple clockwork mechanism.

adj Very regular, precise, and predictable, like the working of a clock.

• In their freight, as in their passenger operations, the N.S. present a picture of clockwork efficiency. — J. M. Tolson, The Nederlands Railways today: III: Signalling and freight (1962)
• The trains ran with clockwork precision.