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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
cloy .
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Examples
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After his appetite had been somewhat cloyed, Prince, shuddering as he did so, passed him a mug of weak beef tea.
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Nor was this all-pervading caress a something that cloyed with too great sweetness; nor was it sickly sentimental; nor was it maudlin with love's madness.
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Both are clever, but Bowen so persistently that one is almost cloyed.
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After his appetite had been somewhat cloyed, Prince, shuddering as he did so, passed him a mug of weak beef tea.
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Yet as we proceed in Afghanistan, even the most well considered of PowerPoint policy recommendations read like parodies of the social-scientist-in-uniform pitches that cloyed in the Vietnam jungles.
Magic and Mayhem Derek Leebaert 2010
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She was particularly cloyed by the dozens of questions the press posed about Garrigues, whom she regarded as little more than a good buddy.
Bobby and Jackie C. David Heymann 2009
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The scent of blood cloyed as revenants mindlessly cleaned up the matching body.
Kiss of a Demon King Kresley Cole 2009
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The scent of blood cloyed as revenants mindlessly cleaned up the matching body.
Kiss of a Demon King Kresley Cole 2009
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She was particularly cloyed by the dozens of questions the press posed about Garrigues, whom she regarded as little more than a good buddy.
Bobby and Jackie C. David Heymann 2009
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She was particularly cloyed by the dozens of questions the press posed about Garrigues, whom she regarded as little more than a good buddy.
Bobby and Jackie C. David Heymann 2009
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