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Example sentences for: hackneyed

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(Nowadays at the Journal , it's considered somewhat hackneyed actually to include the phrase "to be sure" in your "to be sure" paragraph.)
Director James Cameron contributes a short defense of his movie, but an accompanying review pans it: great special effects, hackneyed story.
Any sure thing attracts too many hackneyed ideas, like Wolff's, and too much foolish money.
A little-discussed consequence of the pending calendar turn is the impact it is likely to have on one of the more hackneyed journalistic traditions: the year-in-review survey.
Dissenters gripe about hackneyed dialogue, stock characters, and too much melodrama.