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

Mr. Wilson’s greatest strength wasn’t his lyrical way with words, which could occasionally cloy, but his infectious, sincere appreciation for the unexpected heat within lost and wayward lives.

From New York Times • Mar. 25, 2011

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