| Inside our bodies are several clocklike systems that follow a roughly 24-hour cycle. |
| It was a typical Coster-Mullen moment: he treats the world's most destructive invention as an ordinary clocklike mechanism, made of simple parts that must fit together according to readily discernible laws. |
| Under his directions, from the moment war was declared, everything worked with clocklike precision. |
| The guns of the American squadron roared with clocklike regularity, while the firing from the Spanish ships steadily decreased. |
| The routine proceeds with clocklike precision, until Steph finds herself out of place when a hungry orca performs an out-of-water trick a little too soon. |
| There, he had used radio waves to probe the secrets of pulsars, the spinning, magnetized neutron stars that emit bursts of radiation with clocklike regularity. |
