cloyed

Example Sentences

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If this cloyed on Holmes, he never gave a sign; he was obviously having too much fun watching Laski's continuous intellectual floor show.

From Time Magazine Archive

He envies the young for being young and for possessing the integrity that has eroded in him, the appetite for life that has cloyed on his palate, and the courage that has been drowned.

From Time Magazine Archive

Her formula, a combination of hard masculine realism with feminine deftness and sympathy, pleased many a post-War reader cloyed with hard-boiled sentimentality.

From Time Magazine Archive

Appetites already cloyed by the night’s heat were further diminished.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

"And now you know where the real Lady Josceline Justice is," said Farish M'Kissock drearily, almost as if the savour of his overwhelming revenge on all who had wronged him had cloyed already.

From The White Blackbird by Douglas, Hudson