cloying

Example Sentences

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Not cloying, not milky, not trying to be liked by everyone at the bake sale.

From Salon • Mar. 5, 2026

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

Combined with our exertion, the cloying heat was almost unbearable.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson