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Meanings of cloy in English
Synonyms
Examples for "pall"
Examples for "pall"
1
A pall of corruption hangs over several countries, seemingly impossible to diminish.
2
A pall of dense cloud, many miles in thickness, enfolds the earth.
3
There was a coffin in the boat, covered with a simple pall.
4
The pall-bearers having deposited their charge in front of the pulpit, Rev.
5
The silence in the room was deathly, the heat intense, heavy, pall-like.
Usage of cloy in English
1
It does not cloy the palate, but rather seductively stimulates the appetite.
2
The cloy of her perfume carried though to him in the front.
3
Cold veal pie, when you don't feel hungry, is apt to cloy.
4
With it I can even gather honey that does not cloy.
5
Dread and revulsion and alien emotions cling to us and cloy our movements.
6
The night wind came whispering in, cutting through the cloy of the spilled perfume.
7
We cloy of the honey of each peculiar greatness.
8
This song of sacred joy That never seems to cloy, May Jesus Christ be praised!
9
All the rich devices of rhyme and tone-color must heighten and not cloy the singing quality.
10
How should it cloy with length of use?
11
In transports pure the moments cannot cloy-
12
The artificial bouquet was beginning to cloy.
13
Not that she found kisses were not sweet, but that she feared with repetition they would cloy.
14
The benefits of Civilization cloy me.
15
Sweet things cloy, tonics are bitter.
16
No time can cloy them.
About this term
Frequent collocations
Cloy through the time