Verb (used without object) : A diet of cake and candy soon cloys. From Dictionary.com.
But there's no kind of sport the young heart can cloy. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Hanging Fork and Other Poems] Reference
If they are good they cloy, and if bad they irritate. From Wordnik.com. [Our Elizabeth A Humour Novel] Reference
Which filled the imperial isles so full it seemed to cloy. From Wordnik.com. [Childe Harold's Pilgrimage] Reference
Rich sweets, without bitters, soon cloy and grow charmless. From Wordnik.com. [The Death of Saul and other Eisteddfod Prize Poems and Miscellaneous Verses] Reference
MAURIER'S practical methods to correct its tendency to cloy. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, October 24, 1917] Reference
Hitchcock is not cloy or vague about what happens to Marion. From Wordnik.com. [Scary vs. Horrifying] Reference
June 17th, 2006 at 10: 19 pm cloy says: it was at www wu feet. com. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Homeland Insecurity.] Reference
And blockbusters, however great, can cloy and parch simultaneously. From Wordnik.com. [Diana and Other Delights] Reference
Yea but, said Carpalin, were it not good to cloy all their ordnance?. From Wordnik.com. [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference
Obama's togetherness message is beginning to cloy, the newspapers say. From Wordnik.com. [Christine Wicker: Vote For A Bad Guy] Reference
He handed back the cup and walked away, feeling the sugar cloy inside him. From Wordnik.com. [Hide And Seek]
It does not cloy the palate, but rather seductively stimulates the appetite. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of a Beachcomber] Reference
Maybe my cynicism is out in full force today, but I also felt the speech was cloy. From Wordnik.com. [Michelle Obama Quotes Hillary's "18 Million Cracks In Glass Ceiling" Line] Reference
The night wind came whispering in, cutting through the cloy of the spilled perfume. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Dreams of Reality, 5] Reference
I played it several times and it was OK but after a while the game sarted to cloy on me. From Wordnik.com. [New Ogres on the Horizon? « Third Point of Singularity] Reference
Sate and cloy yourself on these, you will by so doing vex and enrage none of your associates. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
Even the pleasures of life depend much on regularity; otherwise they cloy and become insipid. From Wordnik.com. [The Faithful Steward Or, Systematic Beneficence an Essential of Christian Character] Reference
Things agreeable enough in small quantities, pall and cloy if the ration be overmuch augmented. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference
Only give you fair warnin '— the sweets of life do cloy, and you kin git too much of a good thing. From Wordnik.com. [Old Baldy] Reference
Such Descriptions will grow fulsome if more than just touch'd, as the most delicious things the soonest cloy. From Wordnik.com. [A Full Enquiry into the Nature of the Pastoral (1717)] Reference
"Any great change is a Spirit Gate, plum blossom," she said fondly, and in her mouth the pet name did not cloy. From Wordnik.com. [Spirit Gate] Reference
They cloy the ear, and the mind that has been made sensitive, desiring something of a finer type of stimulation. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets] Reference
Just when the diet of dropped names threatens to cloy, Ms. Hodgson returns to England, where her father is dying. From Wordnik.com. [Wandering Life, Perpetual Feast] Reference
And grateful esteem bids its pleasures ne'er cloy. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3] Reference
Whom pibrochs pierce not, crystals cannot cloy. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Humorous Verse] Reference
For Heaven's sake name no more, you say I cloy you. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume II] Reference
Sure love's soft senses were ne'er designed to cloy!. From Wordnik.com. [Tales and Novels of J. de La Fontaine — Complete] Reference
Isabel, child, you are in the sweet line -- but sweets cloy. From Wordnik.com. [Tales and Novels — Volume 06] Reference
The bracing acidity means that the residual sugar doesn't cloy. From Wordnik.com. [ProfessorBainbridge.com] Reference
Cope's resonant baritone, but almost too sweet: a voice which might cloy. From Wordnik.com. [Bertram Cope's Year] Reference
And he proceeded to read with a sneering imitation of Zoie's cloy sweetness. From Wordnik.com. [Baby Mine] Reference
To those who read it in the original, it is one of the few which never cloy the appetite. From Wordnik.com. [Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes] Reference
All the rich devices of rhyme and tone-color must heighten and not cloy the singing quality. From Wordnik.com. [A Study of Poetry] Reference
Not that she found kisses were not sweet, but that she feared with repetition they would cloy. From Wordnik.com. [When God Laughs: and other stories] Reference
Such things both cloy and weaken the stomach, and thereby take away the appetite, and thus debilitate the frame. From Wordnik.com. [Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children] Reference
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