cliche
Example Sentences
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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
Bernardo: I would say that I know it's a bit of a cliche, but don't be afraid of failing.
From BBC • Dec. 13, 2025
“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
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
He walked slowly and spoke slowly, and almost everything he said publicly was bland, or a cliche, or just plain stupid.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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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