cloyed

Example Sentences

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He envies the young for being young and for possessing the integrity that has eroded in him, the appetite for life that has cloyed on his palate, and the courage that has been drowned.

From Time Magazine Archive

If this cloyed on Holmes, he never gave a sign; he was obviously having too much fun watching Laski's continuous intellectual floor show.

From Time Magazine Archive

Her formula, a combination of hard masculine realism with feminine deftness and sympathy, pleased many a post-War reader cloyed with hard-boiled sentimentality.

From Time Magazine Archive

Appetites already cloyed by the night’s heat were further diminished.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

But the appetite for reading was soon cloyed, and he became incapable of enjoying anything but novels and travels for more than an hour or two at a time.

From Herbert Spencer by Thomson, J. Arthur (John Arthur)