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cloying
1. On the other hand he found that the women who wanted something more permanent from him were just too tart and cloying for his palette
2. The smell of the place is institutional and cloying, especially now that the carefully controlled ambient temperature has been augmented by the bright spring sunshine that streams in through the corridor’s large plate glass windows
3. “No not you lot it is something else it smells over ripe cloying and sticky a revolting terrible stench like rotten meat
4. Some people may disagree but take it from me there the two aromas are totally different if a patient is just sick you can smell the cloying atmosphere
5. That same, cloying burnt smell hung in the room
6. Darkburst pushed on, ignoring the cold cloying touch of the water as it moved higher up his legs, but by the time it had reached halfway up his body, the young cub began to feel cold and tired
7. In the cloying darkness a small creature twitched its nose nervously, disturbed by the steady slapping sounds
8. Crashing through the bulrushes, Darkburst pushed himself as hard as he could, his feet sucking noisily in the mud of the bank with cloying squelches
9. His screams went unheard as he sank deeper and deeper beneath the stinking surface, his nostrils filling with the cloying slime
10. Then I became aware of the scent—roses and lilies and other flowers my nose couldn’t name, perfuming the air around me until it was thick and cloying, like a funeral
11. The air we breathe has a different character, a changed odor, a cloying feel about it that it didn’t have before the rebellion of the sixties and the sanctification of the results in secular correctitude and Civil War
12. It was from Charlotte, and described their last day together, and cloying, yearning in a way
13. The cloying vanilla fog stretched out and settled in
14. She took a few more sniffs of the cloying malodorous air
15. "What is that sweet cloying smell?" she asked nervously
16. The cloying sound of forcibly cheery Christmas carols continued endlessly
17. way, but despite all this there arises in him a cloying desire that he
18. It festered with the cloying scent of someone who had teetered far too long at the brink of demise, whose cloudy eyes and wracked joints and bloody, toothless gums were good for nothing but pain and malaise
19. I would spend my days impressing her with the gloriousness of independence, of having her time entirely at her own disposal, her life free and clear, the world open before her, as open as it was to Adam and Eve when they turned their backs once and for all on the cloying sweetness of Paradise, and far more interesting that it was to them, for it would be full of inhabitants eager to give her the hearty welcome always awaiting those rare persons, the cheery and the brave
20. the woods had held a cloying chill,
21. Oak's attention was caught by the entrance of Rancor, his expression confident, cloying, and conniving
22. The air became cloying as the onerous silence started to overwhelm them
23. Rod bit hungrily into his bird, almost overpowered by the rich, smokiness of the roasted brandy, the cloying fat of the engorged bird, the bitterness of its part-digested figs and the crunchiness of its fine bones as they tore the insides of his cheeks and made his gums bleed
24. The sense of death in that village had been awful and she had run from it as fast as she could to escape the cloying feel of death inherent to the place, but there was no such feel of death in this place of burial
25. Christina twisted away from the cloying touches that she felt from those pressed around her even as something darker and more invisible assaulted her in an endless barrage of temptation, half-truths, and veiled threats of pain and loss
26. The wine was sickly sweet, cloying
27. I’ve tasted butterscotch on his dry-kiss lips, a cloying flavor that was never there before
28. All these cloying and somehow depressing odors of pencils, chalk, grass and slate-board erasers, real or imagined, summoned old memory in an instant
29. At last Henry shook his head, as though to disengage it of cloying thoughts