Example sentences for: clichéd

How can you use “clichéd” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • A clichéd high school Pygmalion story is enlivened by some witty writing: "not a great movie, but it has its moments" (Roger Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). Freddie Prinze Jr. plays a smart, rich, popular jock who (on a bet) transforms Rachael Leigh Cook, an earnest, morose art nerd, into prom queen material.

  • Toru's suburban alley offers convenient access to such a well, and into its clichéd dankness he descends ("my body began to lose its density and weight, ...

  • Critics call this painfully predictable and clichéd futuristic sci-fi film a "mechanical, violent military-porn fantasy"(Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ): Shane meets Terminator meets Road Warrior . An extremely buff Kurt Russell plays the title soldier of the future who, when decommissioned, is relegated to the horrors of the slag heap planet, where he discovers human emotion and rises to the defense of his fellow outcasts.

  • I sort of trusted Clinton, for all his faults--or maybe because of his faults--not to give in totally to the congressional Dems most clichéd instincts.

  • Needless to say, success, in such cases, hinges on the ad maker's ability to manipulate that fine line between the familiar and the clichéd: It's all in the adaptation.


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