Sample Sentences for
cloying
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    "How are you doing, sweetie?" I asked, cloying.  (source)
    cloying = in an overly sweet manner
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    And she had discovered, with the very first toast, that she liked the sweet, cloying taste of the wine, even though it made her head buzz.  (source)
    cloying = overly sweet
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    And the rest of her senior year will probably suck, what with her getting all that cloying your-best-friend's-dead sympathy that will drive her so crazy,  (source)
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    The eunuch's cloying tones were gone; now his voice was thin and sharp as a whip.†  (source)
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    And I remember the smells of the hills, wild azalea and a very distant skunk and the sweet cloy of lupin and horse sweat on harness.†  (source)
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    Even the richest food cloys when eaten days on end; in the market, nothing ever cloys.†  (source)
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    Even there her vanity—or that self-appreciation which, in its more rabid form, is called vanity—was not sufficiently cloyed to make these things wearisome.†  (source)
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    I was falling for the deflecting technique again, not that Havoline Oil had anything cloyingly poetical about it.†  (source)
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    Instead of meeting me in Cloying Square, why don't you come to my house?†  (source)
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    Bing'd out bien Morts and toure, and toure, Bing out of the Rome vile bine, And toure the Cove that cloy'd your duds, Upon the Chates to trine.'†  (source)
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    The habitual and wily flatterer may succeed until his practices recoil on himself, and like other sweets his aliment cloys by its excess; but he who deals honestly, though he often necessarily offends, possesses a power of praising that no quality but sincerity can bestow, since his words go directly to the heart, finding their support in the understanding.†  (source)
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    Appetites already cloyed by the night's heat were further diminished.†  (source)
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    At five o'clock in the morning, Blanca awoke with an upset stomach from the cloyingly sweet smell of the flowers with which her father had adorned the nuptial chamber.†  (source)
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