cloy

Example Sentences

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I added horseradish and hot sauce for a kick, and just enough ketchup to tint the sauce pale pink without letting it cloy.

From Seattle Times • May 29, 2023

And whenever the cutesiness threatens to cloy, the script throws in a palate-cleansing taste of tart or bitter.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 11, 2014

What happened then, and I may have been two days in or three or five, I couldn’t really say, was that things began to cloy.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 10, 2014

The stiff-upper-lip sentimentality implicit in this perspective, and in the play’s portrait of its hero’s tragically thwarted imagination, could cloy.

From New York Times • Jun. 12, 2013

And I remember the smells of the hills, wild azalea and a very distant skunk and the sweet cloy of lupin and horse sweat on harness.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck