cloying

Example Sentences

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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 agua fresca was more cloying than refreshing.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2026

I have always found “Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head,” the theme song from the movie “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” to be both musically and lyrically cloying.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026

She actually believed it was her moths, that she had to choke them down, cloying and clogging and alive.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor