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Example sentences for: cloying
How can you use “cloying” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
It did not completely remove pit stink, and the perfume was a cloying grape scent.
It is a tonic for the cloying coverage of the event itself.
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Praise goes to Georges Du Fresne, the child actor "who seems, in some prodigious way, to understand" his character (Stanley Kauffmann, the New Republic ). Dissenting, the Wall Street Journal 's Joe Morgenstern says the movie is cloying, "cheerful nonsense" and that its creators don't realize that "this kid is profoundly troubled."
The real limitations are those of the writer, whose hallmarks are weak sophomoric humor and a cloying sentimentality.
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