Example sentences for: treacly

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

  • Of course, while this form of address does away with the confusion created by the term "my friend," I think you'd agree that one should put off using the possessive endearment until it is truly called for, or it will come across as treacly baby talk.

  • Critics find no reason for this revival of the treacly 1959 musical.

  • She wouldn't praise a film she found offensively treacly or that trafficked in positive stereotypes because she thought it would ennoble the folks in rural America who saw only a handful of pictures a year.

  • Critics praise it for bucking Disney's musical-comedy formula: It's full of self-conscious humor (jokes about a glut of Hercules merchandise) and employs gospel music instead of the usual treacly pop tunes.

  • Or are both Hanks and Washington in scripts you don't like because as scripts they embody treacly triumphalism?


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