cliche
Example Sentences
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“It sounds cliche, but the walls between our communities literally burned to the ground,” Bernstein said.
From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026
He said while this "sounds like a big cliche", he found that moment emotional and was "very proud to be here and very proud to represent my country".
From BBC • May 13, 2026
In the 2020 miniseries “Hollywood,” Ryan Murphy’s alternate history of the 1930s picture business, the studio head he plays is not the desk-banger of cliche, but he is a man with an appetite.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 15, 2025
You know, those no-hitters and complete games and seeing whether somebody had a pitch in his back pocket, as the cliche goes in baseball, that they could use… That’s the way pitchers used to pitch.
From Salon • Nov. 3, 2025
The use of an old-fashioned word for an old- fashioned garment helps date the snapshot for us, without the cliche faded photograph.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
Vocabulary lists containing cliche
Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - Introductory
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The AP English Exam: Rhetorical and Literary Terms 2
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Reading: Literature - Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - Middle School
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