cliche
Example Sentences
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“I know that’s a cliche way to say things, but … he was going to do what Victor was going to do.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026
The cliche, 'anybody can beat anybody' in the Premier League is closer to the truth than in La Liga or the Bundesliga.
From BBC • Mar. 18, 2026
We broke up within a month, and my life became a California cliche: I joined a cult-like spiritual practice with a glamorous Indian guru.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 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
And if you must use a cliche, why not word it in a way that makes physical sense?
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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