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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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
Too much sugar spoils one's tea; I think I have heard that even prosperity will cloy when it comes in overdoses; and a schoolboy has been known to be overdone with jam.
From Relics of General Chasse by Anthony Trollope
It is that thou thro' future years May meet with very much of joy, And just a little grief, because Continued happiness will cloy.
From Canada and Other Poems by T. F. (Thomas Frederick) Young
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
Then tell me not that I shall grow Forlorn, that fields and woods will cloy; From Nature and her changes flow An everlasting tide of joy.
From Wild Flowers Or, Pastoral and Local Poetry by Robert Bloomfield
