cloying
Example Sentences
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The agua fresca was more cloying than refreshing.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2026
Heartfelt without being cloying, this ad gets all the elements of its message of coming together right in ways that a similar ad from Spectrum couldn’t quite match.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 8, 2026
The claim is sometime made that funerals are about the living, but that reduces the event to a group therapy session, overlaid with the cloying odor of lilies and gladioli.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025
The results were rarely inedible, but often disconcerting: over-salted, over-spiced, somehow both cloying and sharp, like they couldn’t decide what they wanted to be.
From Salon • Jul. 4, 2025
The taste was so cloying that it was all he could do to keep it down.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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