cloy

How To Use cloy In A Sentence

• The fact that I first met it as part of a pavlova didn't help: the deep clouds of snow-white sugar-cake need a fruit with a sting in its tail (the Antipodeans are bang on with their inclusion of passion fruit) if the dessert isn't to cloy. Tender delights
• She cloyed her appetite with rich food.
• There's also a cloying crème brûlée made with semolina, and a refreshingly chalky caramel parfait on a bed of thinly sliced stewed pears.
• The honey means that the sweetness isn't cloying and the smooth flakes of almond give a rustic feel. Times, Sunday Times
• Never maudlin, never cloying, the story is that of a judo champion struck down in a road accident and almost overnight becoming a paraplegic in a wheelchair.
• It opens up nicely in less than an hour and has the kind of jammy sweetness associated with Syrah - but not so much that it's cloying. Vail Daily - Top Stories
• The beat lilts rather than swings, and there's a sweetness about the melodies that can become cloying if you listen too much.
• The cloying heaviness of snacking on cheese instead of ginger snaps left me feeling dull and vaguely nauseous.
• The sentimentality, which at times reaches unbearable levels, is saccharine and cloying.
• I do not speak from personal experience, for I detest the sweet, cloying stuff; but it occasionally fell to my lot to guide down-stairs the uncertain footsteps of some ventripotent Kommerzien-Rath, or even of Mr. Over-Inspector of Railways himself, both temporarily incapacitated by injudicious indulgence in Swedish Punch. The Days Before Yesterday