clocklike
Example Sentences
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The slowly turning clocklike wheel suggests the toll it takes, slowly grinding our world into atoms.
From Washington Post
To detect the spiraling pairs, observers train large radio telescopes on dozens of pulsars—collapsed stars emitting radio beams that, as the pulsar spins, appear as pulses with clocklike regularity.
From Science Magazine
The clocklike graphic measures, in real time, the chances of different candidates winning in a particular caucus or primary.
From Seattle Times
Time cells fire at successive moments but do not track time in a simple clocklike fashion.
From Scientific American
District Judge Dolly Gee to reject the government’s arguments, wondering how “emergencies” could occur with such clocklike precision.
From Washington Post
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
