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

For all that you taste is cloying, And sweet is the far away.

From Ionica by Cory, William (AKA William Johnson)