How to Use cloy in a Sentence

cloy

verb

• The slight smokiness of the Scotch and the ginger cut through the oft-cloying sweetness and thick texture of the eggnog.
  — Alyse Whitney, Bon Appetit, 6 Dec. 2017
• The whole thing manages to be sweet, and funny, and not cloying in the way of so much kid-centric programming.
  — Sophie Kemp, Vogue, 24 Dec. 2019
• The use of music — more filler than necessary at times — is also cloying.
  — Alan Zilberman, Twin Cities, 4 July 2019
• What wasn’t cloying in that finale on Sunday was the music — the orchestra swirling and shining, the chorus rich and full-bodied.
  — Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 23 May 2017
• In retrospect, some of the things that wouldn’t work quite as well about the series (like cloying, overobvious song choices) were present from the very first episode, too.
  — Todd Vanderwerff, Slate Magazine, 20 Dec. 2017
• Tea also solves the most common problem of mocktails — cloying sweetness.
  — Joy Manning, Philly.com, 12 July 2018
• The result is not cloying, however, and mascarpone along with blackberry sauce keep the sugar in check.
  — Becky Krystal, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2019
• On the other hand, semi-sweet or milk chocolate can sometimes be cloying because there isn’t that bitter contrast.
  — Jennifer Farley, charlotteobserver, 10 Apr. 2018
• His bleak and jaded worldview is tempered by an unflagging, never cloying faith in love and its ability to transcend the muck and vile.
  — Carlos Valladares, SFChronicle.com, 4 Nov. 2019
• No Passover Seder seemed authentic without its square-shaped, ripple-faced matzo and a shot or more of the syrupy Concord grape wine that many find cloying yet nostalgic.
  — Joseph Berger, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2019
• Well that’s because when the cookies are good, there’s little else that’s so perfectly fudgy but not dense, sweet but not cloying, satisfying, without putting you over the edge.
  — Alex Pastron, Bon Appétit, 4 Feb. 2020
• Plenty sweet, to be sure, but certainly not cloying, and despite the grapes’ long hang time the flavors are perfectly fresh — pert and bright, as opposed to the stewy-fruit notes that often burden late-harvest wines.
  — Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 11 July 2019
• As in the previous films, the pilgrims stay in the most picturesque places, and are served the most sumptuous meals, the preparation of which Mr. Winterbottom uses as a visual digestif when his two stars begin to cloy.
  — John Anderson, WSJ, 10 Aug. 2017
• Instead, charm abounds: not cloying, but without consequence.
  — Alastair MacAulay, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2017
• Other brands’ seltzers were perfectly dry, but the synthetic flavors felt cloying in their own way and left an unpleasantly bitter aftertaste.
  — Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 20 Aug. 2019
• Whatever the outcome of Trump’s decision, his dilemma is just another example of him cloyed in the sticky reality of governing.
  — Isobel Thompson, The Hive, 9 May 2017
• Her 2014 autobiography, A Fighting Chance, and recent stump speeches are festooned in pep club spirit and folksy blandishments, cloying bits of business that have attached themselves to her life story.
  — Caroline Fraser, The New York Review of Books, 13 Feb. 2020
• The Cold Blue builds a mesmerizing historical journey with a one-two punch of technological wizardry and emotional but never cloying artistry.
  — Chuck Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 16 May 2019
• This is not entirely a bad thing, and the movie, which begins streaming Friday on Disney+, emerges a generally charming, sometimes cloying exercise in wildlife anthropomorphism.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2020
• Holland calibrates this really well, turning in an endlessly likable performance that never cloys or grows sticky with precociousness.
  — Richard Lawson, HWD, 29 June 2017

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