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Example sentences for: clichés

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

In it we see the uncomfortable sight of a writer not fully engaged with his material: the weak opening, the clichés ("swaggering"?)
Newly hatched clichés that are not confined to public-affairs discourse (e.g.
Time 's Corliss writes that the film's nice, if "you look past the gaffes and clichés."
But then she puts the most toe-curling clichés into his mouth: "Why am I more ghost than man?"
The authors pull no punches, characterizing one government memorandum as “spoilt by carelessness, clichés and flaccidity,” another as “rather stilted.