Example Sentences

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Expect a pun or two and some heightened emotions — and don’t be surprised if there’s tinge of hokeyness.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 17, 2025

The sun came out, Darryl started warbling “Take Me Home, Country Roads,” and both exhausted and elated, I leaned into the heartfelt hokeyness of the moment.

From Washington Post • Sep. 23, 2021

He’s a figure of an earlier time, and bringing him into the modern age has always meant a dance between sly retcons and outright hokeyness.

From The Verge • Oct. 15, 2014

The way she cast aside the whip, and how it fell in slow motion, was this week’s bit of hokeyness.

From Slate • Apr. 22, 2013

Nearly a dozen paintings parody the frequent hokeyness of the Argentine-Italian modernist Lucio Fontana’s sliced-canvas monochromes by rearranging his cuts to form Z’s, for Zorro, but two wrongs don’t make a right.

From New York Times • Nov. 3, 2011