Example Sentences

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The smells of the spices were cloying, dizzying.

From The Saracen: Land of the Infidel by Shea, Robert

Still the breeze delayed, and the fragrant odors of the woods were cloying.

From 'Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands by Taylor, H. Weston