cloy
verb (used with object)
to weary by an excess of food, sweetness, pleasure, etc.; surfeit; satiate.
will cloy
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future tenseof cloy.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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Good books, mi dear, are the best friends yu kan hav, they never will cloy, and never will betray you.
From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Henry W. Shaw
But even honey will cloy; and that sweetest of all moons, the Apian one, would sometimes be better for a change.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, September 12, 1841 by Various
But joy incessant palls the sense; And love unchanged will cloy, And she became a bore intense Unto her love-sick boy?
From Songs of a Savoyard by Sir W. S. (William Schwenck) Gilbert
But joy incessant palls the sense; And love, unchanged, will cloy, And she became a bore intense Unto her love-sick boy!
From The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan by Sir W. S. (William Schwenck) Gilbert
But joy incessant palls the sense; And love, unchanged will cloy, And she became a bore intense Unto her love-sick boy!
From Bab Ballads and Savoy Songs by Sir W. S. (William Schwenck) Gilbert
