| Estimation error is likely to make branch lengths appear even less clocklike than they actually are. |
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| Kyle Boot dashed through the garage, into the living area, where the big clocklike wooden indicator was set at All Out. |
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| Inside our bodies are several clocklike systems that follow a roughly 24-hour cycle. |
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| She moves through the ballet's striking angles, clocklike maneuvers, and dramatic pauses with fluidity and a guarded sexual energy. |
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| 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. |
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| Instead, the clocklike gears of the solar system line up Earth, our planetary neighbor and the sun with all but creaking slowness. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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