is cloying
- present progressive of cloy (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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Woolf’s imaginary interaction with a contemporary male novelist who speaks about how much she’s meant to him — an invention of the libretto — is cloying and overwrought, drenched in bells.
From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2022
Ask people who've had beer stripped of its alcohol, and you'll hear that it is cloying.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2021
In addition, what was charmingly grandiloquent in the adolescent Elio — a florid style; an expansive frame of reference — is cloying and ostentatious in a cast of adult narrators.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 29, 2019
That may be the difference between a wine that is cloying and one that is refreshing.
From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2019
A moderate degree of bitterness is a very useful accompaniment of the gum, which alone is cloying and even oppressive to the stomach.
From The Church of England Magazine - Volume 10, No. 263, January 9, 1841 by Various
