Example Sentences

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The results, delivered fresh and gooily cheesy from the oven, are achingly self-evident in their pleasures - a pound or more of pure comfort that is neither Filipino nor Italian but near-dangerously universal.

From Washington Times • Apr. 3, 2021

But even an unreal world needs characters who make sense, particularly in a series that is as gooily devoted to exploring those characters’ inner lives as “Maniac” turns out to be.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 17, 2018

Leslie, for another, has “bright red lipstick smeared gooily across her mouth,” and looks “like a wild creature that had been hastily and not entirely consensually bundled into something approximating midsummer southern chic.”

From The New Yorker • Jul. 30, 2018

And none of those words make us fall for her as gooily as Cincy does.

From The Guardian • Jul. 20, 2012

There are, of course, food purists who treat the microwave with the disdain once reserved for Cheez Whiz -- a product, incidentally, that is undergoing a dramatic resurrection because it is so gooily microwavable.

From Time Magazine Archive