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Example sentences for: cloy
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Like paying lip service , making all the right noises possesses just enough color to be memorable and yet not so much color as to cloy.
When overworked, such images cloy, which is why slang is constantly shifting and why some of its elements (like neat and keen ) are occasionally recycled—why waste a good word?
In part, that is attributable to the designation of his correspondents, who keep him informed on language that is not within earshot, as the “Lexicographic Irregulars,” an amusing reference the first time or two it was used but now beginning to cloy.