Examples of 'cloying' in a sentence
Meaning of "cloying"
Cloy is a verb that means to disgust or sicken with an excess of something
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- present participle of cloy
- Unpleasantly excessive.
- Excessively sweet.
How to use "cloying" in a sentence
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cloying
The cloying adulation of the little people.
The atmosphere was cloying with magical energy.
The cloying adulationof the little people.
It coats the tongue but is not cloying.
The right is cloying when sympathy is expressed.
This version is sweet without being cloying.
All those cloying violins sicken me.
I thought my food was needy and cloying.
Driven by a cloying need for approval.
There is an air of obsequiousness in here that is positively cloying.
Never cloying and always welcomed.
Every word is sappy and cloying.
He remembered the cloying scent of strawberries.
Adorable child actors who are cute without being cloying.
It seemed cloying and overly dramatic.
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He has a sweet touch without being cloying.
A world free from the cloying ache of want.
Cloying to the point of retardation.
Honey is more than just a cloying treat on bread.
Taste is also on the sweet side but not cloying.
I find it cloying and annoying.
No wonder it did not taste as cloying as before.
There is a cloying eagerness to him.
That helped some to cut the cloying sweetness.
Not a trace of cloying sweetness that often marks others of this appellation.
Even good ones can be cloying.
Singing a cloying love song.
Good read without being cloying.
Not at all cloying or overweight.
It is sweet without being cloying.
Speechless effortlessly avoids any cloying very special episode mentality.
The taste is convincing for a balanced sweetness and not cloying.
I myself would have to give up my own cloying sentimentality toward men.
They claim that they are too sweet and cloying.
I am leaving before all of this pathetic cloying affection gives me another stomachache.
Evaded the cloying paparazzi and slipped into the elegant ballroom.
They stay away from sweet or cloying fragrances.
I loved the cloying odor of warm mud that told me the pond was near.
But instead causes you to shrink from her cloying embrace.
This contributes to its less cloying taste but also causes it to spoil more easily.
I hear it can be cloying.
A florid and cloying scent is needed to conceal its unspeakable mineral and animal origins.
I am not cloying.
This is not the cloying white Zinfandel of a couple of decades ago.
The smell of a stagnant sewer is unmistakable in its odoriferous and cloying funk.
Each one of the characters looks like a cloying stereotype that women can identify with.
Because beneath the neuroses the candor that makes all of us and the cloying perfectionism.
I can practically smell the cloying scent of Snow and Charming closing in on me.
That just was not being satisfied by the current crop of cloying crap on the shelves.
Is this cloying city finally getting under your skin?
