cloying

Example Sentences

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Watching “Reminders of Him” and shedding a few tears during the inevitable scene where Kenna finally meets her daughter, I was reminded of just how cloying the experience of watching “Hamnet” was.

From Salon • Mar. 19, 2026

The agua fresca was more cloying than refreshing.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2026

Heartfelt without being cloying, this ad gets all the elements of its message of coming together right in ways that a similar ad from Spectrum couldn’t quite match.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 8, 2026

The claim is sometime made that funerals are about the living, but that reduces the event to a group therapy session, overlaid with the cloying odor of lilies and gladioli.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025

Underneath the cloying fragrance of the decaying flowers, the air was laced with the odors of gunpowder, damp hay, and the dusty musk of horseflesh.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros