On this page you'll find 5 example sentences with Cloyingly. Discover the meaning, how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Cloyingly meaning
- In a cloying manner; with distasteful excess.
- In an excessively sweet manner.
Using Cloyingly
- The main meaning on this page is: In a cloying manner; with distasteful excess. | In an excessively sweet manner.
- In the example corpus, cloyingly often appears in combinations such as: cloyingly sweet.
Context around Cloyingly
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 1 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 4 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Cloyingly
- In this selection, "cloyingly" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 22 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, almost, too, sweet, human and sycophantic stand out and add context to how "cloyingly" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include almost always cloyingly self promotional and flavour and cloyingly sweet. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "cloyingly" sits close to words such as aaaaa, aage and aardvarks, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with cloyingly
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Taste: mild chocolate flavour and cloyingly sweet. (7 words)
Even then, friends’ posts are almost always cloyingly self-promotional. (10 words)
The almost cloyingly human performances of Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst still make the relationship work on screen, even when the script somewhat fails them. (25 words)
A few weeks ago, in Granger’s “Guyana Review” — now published as an insert in the Stabber News — there was such a cloyingly sycophantic puff piece on Granger that health centres across the country were inundated by readers who couldn’t stop gagging! (43 words)
The almost cloyingly human performances of Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst still make the relationship work on screen, even when the script somewhat fails them. (25 words)
Fruity ice cream, sorbet and gelato can be refreshing on a hot day, but many flavors are just too cloyingly sweet for the hottest weather. (25 words)
A few weeks ago, in Granger’s “Guyana Review” — now published as an insert in the Stabber News — there was such a cloyingly sycophantic puff piece on Granger that health centres across the country were inundated by readers who couldn’t stop gagging! (43 words)
Example sentences (5)
The almost cloyingly human performances of Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst still make the relationship work on screen, even when the script somewhat fails them.
Taste: mild chocolate flavour and cloyingly sweet.
A few weeks ago, in Granger’s “Guyana Review” — now published as an insert in the Stabber News — there was such a cloyingly sycophantic puff piece on Granger that health centres across the country were inundated by readers who couldn’t stop gagging!
Even then, friends’ posts are almost always cloyingly self-promotional.
Fruity ice cream, sorbet and gelato can be refreshing on a hot day, but many flavors are just too cloyingly sweet for the hottest weather.
Common combinations with cloyingly
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: