How to Use gushy in a Sentence

gushy

adjective

• Judging by that gushy lead-in show, the rapport wasn’t all an act.
  — Robert Verbruggen, National Review, 2 May 2020
• This isn't the first time the pair have been gushy about each other on social media.
  — Jenna Ryu, USA TODAY, 21 July 2021
• This isn't the first time the home cook posted a gushy tribute to her son's latest achievements.
  — Antonia Debianchi, PEOPLE.com, 11 Apr. 2022
• For some, the gushy card that person creates would be perfect.
  — Molly Longman, refinery29.com, 14 Feb. 2022
• What would be even better is if the folks posting gushy messages kept up the same energy the other 364 days of the year.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2023
• Based on this gushy photo from Elizabeth's party, these legal woes seem to be the last thing on Kylie and Travis' mind.
  — Noelle Devoe, Seventeen, 2 Apr. 2018
• On my first night there, the Commander set up a little mise-en-scène: a vase of irises and chilled white wine on a metal table, along with a gushy card.
  — Abby Ellin, Marie Claire, 8 Jan. 2019
• Hawn also paid tribute to Russell in a gushy Instagram post.
  — Edward Segarra, USA TODAY, 20 June 2022
• The Biebs utilizes his falsetto in sensual fashion, which makes his lovey-dovey lyrics come off as more alluring than gushy.
  — Taylor Weatherby, Billboard, 9 June 2017
• Elsewhere in their office is an old chamois responsible for a shocking array of gushy sounds.
  — Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 27 Oct. 2022
• The power couple made that abundantly clear with a pair of gushy Instagram tributes to each other on Valentine's day.
  — Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 15 Feb. 2020
• And in August of 2006, Barack Obama was winning gushy headlines in for his triumphal visit to his father’s ancestral home in Kenya.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 29 Aug. 2022
• At Akikos, the fish performed as expected, with a lightly melty mouthfeel, but at Friends Only one bite unleashed a waterfall of gushy fat.
  — Cesar Hernandez, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Apr. 2023
• Daytime-talk-show icon and rom-com trailblazer Drew Barrymore sure knows how to make an audience feel all warm and gushy inside.
  — Vulture, 12 Sep. 2022
• No amount of gushy preface can break its spell entirely; it’s that powerful, that singular.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 4 Nov. 2021
• Six’s’ opening isn’t just a gushy celebration for Broadway.
  — Michael Appler, Variety, 5 Oct. 2021
• Despite the gushy National Socialist rhetoric, telling expressions of opinion emerge—a kind that speaks eloquently for the thoughts and feelings of one small unit of Germans around the Dunkirk perimeter.
  — Robert Kershaw, WSJ, 29 July 2022
• Back in March, Emily celebrated her 10-year anniversary with a gushy post about Shane on Instagram.
  — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com, 10 Sep. 2019
• Jacoby is basically a celebrant of Broadway, and his film can get gushy.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Aug. 2021
• There’s something admirable and disarming about an up-and-coming novelist being so gushy, boyish and unironic.
  — Ben Downing, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2018
• Except the unfettered devotion in the latter is replaced by swooping strings and a gushy chorus that merely offer an antiseptic veneer.
  — Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 17 June 2022
• All the dances are standard cliché numbers; Mr. Maillot’s alternation between cartoonlike acting and gushy lyricism makes the characters look deranged.
  — Alastair MacAulay, New York Times, 27 July 2017
• There are no illuminating profiles, no gushy restaurant reviews.
  — Rick Nelson, Star Tribune, 12 Feb. 2021
• Emblematic of the gushy, overly credulous business and tech journalism ascendant at the time, Fortune’s story touched off a media stampede that transformed Holmes, then 30, into a business superstar.
  — Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2021
• Everything Everywhere All at Once is a supernova of emo cartoon invention that plays its comic-bookish multiversal premise for both delirious running gags and unabashedly gushy sentimentality.
  — A.a. Dowd, Chron, 4 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024