cloying

Example Sentences

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In its all-too-human view of life, this is, entertainingly, whatever the opposite of a cloying graduation speech is.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2026

The agua fresca was more cloying than refreshing.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2026

I have always found “Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head,” the theme song from the movie “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” to be both musically and lyrically cloying.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026

Working with a decent if cloying screenplay by Joe Anders, Winslet aims to capture all of the intimate moments and outsized chaos that large families are prone to weaving between.

From Salon • Jan. 1, 2026

Even now, stripped of their opulence, crowded into two-bedroom apartments in Hialeah and Little Havana, the Puente women clung to their rituals as they did their engraved silverware, succumbing to a cloying nostalgia.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García