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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:
[I]t seems to not make the slightest difference that his raw materials are clichés, and that his handling of the medium--of any medium--is inert."
The pileup of clichés ends with a safe "Clarence Harmon, Mayor."
His newspaper prose may not be deathless, but it's not as lifeless as the piled-up clichés that pass for the average column.
The latest in a wash of Scream -bred teen horror flicks is roundly panned as a "disappointing adolescent thriller starring no one you ever heard of" (Michael O'Sullivan, the Washington Post ). Despite a promising premise--high-school students are lobotomized into conformity by a guidance counselor and their parents--the film is said to be packed with clichés (faces in windows, hands on shoulders) and lacking either an ironic or a frightening touch.
The authors pull no punches, characterizing one government memorandum as “spoilt by carelessness, clichés and flaccidity,” another as “rather stilted.