Get to know Treacly better with 5 real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like cloying or saccharine.
Treacly in a sentence
Treacly meaning
- Of a liquid, thick and sticky.
- Consisting of treacle, or cloying, sentimental speech.
Synonyms of Treacly
Using Treacly
- The main meaning on this page is: Of a liquid, thick and sticky. | Consisting of treacle, or cloying, sentimental speech.
- Useful related words include: cloying, saccharine, syrupy, sweet.
- In the example corpus, treacly often appears in combinations such as: of treacly.
Context around Treacly
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 1 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 5 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Treacly
- In this selection, "treacly" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 20.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, bread, brown and allusions stand out and add context to how "treacly" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include his treacly brown tea and of a treacly tv drama. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "treacly" sits close to words such as aakash, aanholt and aardwolf, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with treacly
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The speeches were treacly. (4 words)
His treacly brown tea, however, still didn’t look terribly appetising. (11 words)
A slab of treacly bread is toasted and laid with Ortiz anchovies, the brand name a reassurance. (17 words)
Opening mood music that sounds disconcertingly like the theme of a treacly TV drama casts doubt at the outset, but Torney and company prove to know their way around the Tenleytown home of the play’s Fischer family. (38 words)
Last year's sleeper trend with its treacly allusions to butter churns, quilting bees and starchily kitted-out sister wives, has given way to something less like a costume, less aggressively maidenly. (32 words)
A slab of treacly bread is toasted and laid with Ortiz anchovies, the brand name a reassurance. (17 words)
Example sentences (5)
The speeches were treacly.
A slab of treacly bread is toasted and laid with Ortiz anchovies, the brand name a reassurance.
His treacly brown tea, however, still didn’t look terribly appetising.
Last year's sleeper trend with its treacly allusions to butter churns, quilting bees and starchily kitted-out sister wives, has given way to something less like a costume, less aggressively maidenly.
Opening mood music that sounds disconcertingly like the theme of a treacly TV drama casts doubt at the outset, but Torney and company prove to know their way around the Tenleytown home of the play’s Fischer family.
Common combinations with treacly
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of treacly 2×