12 example sentences using cloying.
Cloying used in a sentence
Cloying in a sentence as an adjective
Which is cool, I guess, for a bit, but after a while I found it cloying.
It feels inflated and cloying, like a freshman essay in strong need of an editor.
While the story itself may be inspiring, the film making style was cloying and cliched.
Refreshing and not super high in alcohol, yet bitter instead of cloying and sweet.
Yes, they're pumping out derivative cloying work like every start up does because that's what they get paid to do.
Agreed that the copy is cloying, but surely you realize that the point is that some people prefer a smaller device?
The nice spicy rye in the mash also comes through, giving the bourbon a dash of cinnamon that keeps the vanilla sweetness from cloying.
Oddly, I hear "funnest" a lot more often and it comes across a lot more naturally to me. I find it cloying/annoying for marketing copy to try to push the envelope like this.
A person with that name, and choosing to use that name for their business, has nothing to prove and isn't cloying for approval: hence the high 'trustworthy' rating.
"In short, the human condition is a rotted, cloying swamp, but we're closer to the edge than we were - no longer up to our necks in it, we now have the luxury of finding more of our surroundings to be disgusting and primitive.
"Possibly, but people who are constantly apologizing are usually annoying, manipulative, cloying, or insincere.
I'd love a list of tried-and-tested-to-the-point-of-being-cloying bootstrapping advice.
Cloying definitions
overly sweet
See also: saccharine syrupy treacly