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Example sentences for: cloying

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Those inhabiting English's linguistic core may find the phrase cloying, but its popularity in finance and sport, and in the English spoken by non-native speakers, suggests that its colonizing power remains robust.
She says it lacks sourcing and attribution, "reverberates with the cloying sound of the talk-show confessional," and has a "propensity for Gothic melodrama and romance-novel prose."
It did not completely remove pit stink, and the perfume was a cloying grape scent.
The real limitations are those of the writer, whose hallmarks are weak sophomoric humor and a cloying sentimentality.
From Jules and Jim there are the plucked, fragrant melodies that stop brilliantly short of cloying, the spasm of frantic neo-Baroque fiddling from Day for Night , and the tangy sounds of an out-of-tune barroom upright from Shoot the Piano Player . In these eclectic sketches--which capture an image but have no emotional arc of their own--the irony of this project comes into focus: the contradiction of championing film music by cleaving it from film.