Words similar to clichés

Example sentences for: clichés

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

Certainly it is no passing fad, dependent on vogue words, for despite its infancy it employs such age-old terms as alas, albeit, perforce , and withal . Nor it can be taxed with pedantry, demonstrably, for on occasion it makes use of colloquial expressions like for starters, likewise, for sure , and no doubt about it . Above all, though some people might think otherwise, it definitely does not involve clichés.
It would seem that good control over clichés, especially, is coordinate with a speaker's grasp of the idiom (in the sense of `spirit') of the language.
Robert W. Burchfield, the longtime editor of the Oxford English Dictionary , treats the phrase with magisterial derision in The New Fowler's Modern English Usage (1996)--he dismisses it as "one of the ignoble clichés introduced into the language in the 20c.
Director John Singleton ( Boyz N the Hood ) is accused of sentimentalizing his subject and resorting to action-film banalities--"a sorry assortment of dramatic and visual clichés that were retired from service, or should have been, decades ago," says the Wall Street Journal 's Morgenstern.
One might well wonder why some clichés have survived at all, considering their meaninglessness.