The system would have needed to work like a clock, and Dowding certainly had a clocklike mind.

And now that same clocklike inevitability was sending it to its destruction.

Everything went with the clocklike precision of a peacetime maneuver.

His organization was structured along military lines and functioned with clocklike precision.

The three worked with clocklike precision, removing components from one panel and placing them in another.

The same datings were obtained in an analysis of clocklike evolving genes.

We learned to tell time by where the sun was in the sky, circling above us in a perfect, small, clocklike orbit.

They could smell gas and hear the slow, clocklike tick of the Chevy's cooling engine.

It was small, clocklike mechanism that issued dull, almost imperceptible ticks.

- and an analog clocklike display indicates the direction.

Berliners had learned to live with the bombing and to anticipate the almost clocklike regularity of the raids.

The most famous of the geysers, Old Faithful, has lost its clocklike regularity.

It came from an odd-shaped, clocklike instrument that rested on a large recording phonograph.

With clocklike certainty, within four minutes the breathing rate slowed even more, then became irregular, then ceased.

The universe moved with clocklike precision.

With clocklike slowness it changed its angle.

He kept time by the rhythm of their punches and the clocklike regularity of Peterson's appearances.

He watches the brass hand on the clocklike face of the floor-indicator above the closed doors, tapping one foot impatiently.

They wheeled and formed and charged and reformed with clocklike precision.

Readers expecting the clocklike calibrations of a perfectly timed farce will be disappointed.

There are also enigmatic clocklike strokes on the chimes and soft clusters on the piano.

The glass fronts had been removed so that Russian labels could be stuck on to the clocklike instruments before the glass was replaced.

But even the clocklike inner workings are enough to make collectors like Mr. Rosen nostalgic.

Those clocklike ticks predicted death.

Kyle Boot dashed through the garage, into the living area, where the big clocklike wooden indicator was set at All Out.