How to Use metronomic in a Sentence

metronomic

adjective
  • Long track tends to attract taller athletes who race a clock with metronomic steadiness.
    — John Branch, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2018
  • The metronomic dispersal of outcomes right and left is the result of our current schism, not a salve for it.
    — Reilly Stephens, National Review, 1 Feb. 2018
  • Ali covered his face and tried to absorb Frazier’s metronomic body blows, aiming to tire him.
    — Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Given his metronomic production over the past five years, that premise seemed sound and reasonable.
    — Nick Piecoro, azcentral, 31 May 2018
  • There are the pump jacks scattered across the plains, nodding up and down with metronomic regularity.
    — ProPublica, 10 Mar. 2021
  • Stripes suddenly appeared, moved across the mirror, vanished, all in metronomic time.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Aug. 2021
  • The sprinklers click a metronomic music of the agricultural West all day long.
    — Christopher Ketcham, Harper's magazine, 24 June 2019
  • Without diverging from the metronomic pacing, the swerve puts a little skip in between steps, a lift that’s like a higher note.
    — New York Times, 26 Sep. 2021
  • Same solid drives, same high, metronomic dribble, same deadening retinue of mid-range Js.
    — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2019
  • Car bombs go off with almost metronomic regularity, each crunching blast a fresh bulletin from hell.
    — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2018
  • The silence, punctuated by the metronomic crash of the waves, was somehow both calming and ominous.
    — Washington Post, 26 June 2021
  • Themes of love, friendship and sacrifice pop up with metronomic consistency.
    — Justin Chang, latimes.com, 24 Apr. 2018
  • The firm ground effect parlayed into a metronomic sound emanating from each push-off and release of the cloud component.
    — Adam Chase, Outside Online, 13 Aug. 2021
  • Like baseball's Mike Trout, Crosby is a metronomic exemplar of all-around skill.
    — Adam Kilgore, chicagotribune.com, 30 Apr. 2018
  • Nelson sometimes counsels musicians to feel, not count — to disburden themselves of metronomic ideas about tempo and go with the flow.
    — Jody Rosen, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2022
  • The first shot is that of a ticking stopwatch, a motif that draws a clear line between this and the pulsing, metronomic work of Christopher Nolan.
    — Lewis Gordon, Wired, 18 Aug. 2021
  • The chain reaction of metronomic tck-tck-tcks is expected to last eight full minutes and promises to be supremely satisfying.
    — Sofia Andrade, Washington Post, 19 July 2024
  • Mountain time is governed less by minutes or days than by a metronomic knowledge that the landscape that overawes our funny little species predates us, and will outlast us, too.
    — Kyle Paoletta, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2020
  • Fityan reads the text, his mouth silently forming the words in Arabic while the tip of his cigarette bounces over the syllables with metronomic precision.
    — Elliot Ackerman, Esquire, 23 Mar. 2017
  • New species emerge every 2 million years, on average, in a metronomic rhythm tapped out by the random nature of genetic mutations.
    — Quanta Magazine, 5 May 2015
  • The track could be taken as a calmly metronomic homage to the Beach Boys and Supertramp, complete with vocal harmonies.
    — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2018
  • And all the while, in Tokyo and across Japan, the pandemic worsened, setting records with metronomic regularity.
    — Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2021
  • All the while, the trail of migrants into the downtown El Paso courthouse has gone on with metronomic regularity.
    — Washington Post, 24 July 2019
  • Meanwhile, Chara played with standard metronomic efficiency with his new team, the Caps needing to suit up only eight blue liners all season.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 14 May 2021
  • Fellow rookie Cooper Hummel marveled at the metronomic nature of Beer’s routine and at-bats.
    — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 22 Apr. 2022
  • Schiff answered with metronomic precision, his delivery polished to a high gloss by years of addressing jurors and holding forth in Congress.
    — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2024
  • His production is metronomic at this point, steadily powering a Houston offense without its table setter for the season's first two months.
    — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Sharapova remains Williams’s most reliable tennis muse, bringing out the very best in Williams’s power game on a metronomic basis.
    — Christopher Clarey, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2019
  • McEnroe’s serve-and-volley game against Borg’s metronomic mastery at the baseline and against Connors’ flat backhand and returns.
    — Howard Fendrich, SFChronicle.com, 4 July 2020
  • When fit, Sheaf was an ever-present under Robins, with his tough-tackling and metronomic passing providing a foundation at the base of midfield for the manager to build from.
    — Elias Burke, The Athletic, 13 Aug. 2024

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