cliché
Example Sentences
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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
“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
Yet sometimes, he is entirely like the cliche - the long-serving politician who is intensely reluctant to confront accusations of past mistakes.
From BBC • Feb. 4, 2026
“We tried to avoid the chop-socky, punchy cliche sounds you hear in a lot of boxing movies,” Urmson notes.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2025
But most gangsters were, as the cliche assures us, two-bit gangsters.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
Vocabulary lists containing cliché
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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