Example Sentences

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“A Big Bold Beautiful Journey” is sticky sweet and sludgy and so cloyingly aesthetic that the roadkill bleeds ropes of twee entrails.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 19, 2025

It takes a little over an hour for “Nobu” to marinate long enough to approach a point of complexity, not exactly bitter but no longer cloyingly sweet.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 3, 2025

In concept, “The Nosebleed” might have been cloyingly navel gazing were it not conceived with a generosity of perspective and an unpretentious bid for audience engagement.

From New York Times • Aug. 4, 2022

Relationships between characters are often cloyingly sentimental and one-dimensional, reflecting plot lore rather than fleshing out extended emotional sketches.

From Salon • May 5, 2022

After that, they were hard and cloyingly sweet.

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows