cloying
Example Sentences
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In his pursuit of answers, Roher employs a cloying framework: his loving wife occasionally narrating as if this were a storybook and Roher the protagonist of a scary adventure.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026
Watching “Reminders of Him” and shedding a few tears during the inevitable scene where Kenna finally meets her daughter, I was reminded of just how cloying the experience of watching “Hamnet” was.
From Salon • Mar. 19, 2026
In its all-too-human view of life, this is, entertainingly, whatever the opposite of a cloying graduation speech is.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2026
The script leans so heavily into cloying emotionality that, in its climax, everyone dissolves into tears.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025
Kainene dragged the word out until it sounded cloying, sticky: beau-ti-ful.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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