| Fiercely rare lamb chops were promptly and cheerfully redone to medium-rare, and their iffy-sounding mint sauce proved to be a tart-sweet demiglaze that didn't cloy. |
| Over-sentimental and apt to cloy, it is eminently poetical and full of melody. |
| To cloy or surfeit is to gratify to the point of revulsion or disgust. |
| What happened then, and I may have been two days in or three or five, I couldn't really say, was that things began to cloy. |
| And he proceeded to read with a sneering imitation of Zoie's cloy sweetness. |
| Things agreeable enough in small quantities, pall and cloy if the ration be overmuch augmented. |
