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How to use treacly in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word treacly? Here are some examples.

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Pudding is an impossibly rich chocolate cake, followed by a shot of treacly espresso.
The soundtrack is a big part of the problem, resonating like a gong in an echo chamber one minute and soaring to treacly heights the next.
She brings strength and warmth and grace to what could have been a treacly, self-aware, melancholy role.
There are fine, rust-colored old-fashioneds available, and the mint juleps are properly treacly and sweet.
I know that's heresy, but there is a treacly quality to so much of the talk about King and his dream that it is like an overdose of candy.
Unfortunately, some other songs tend towards the kind of treacly lugubriousness that gives country music a bad name.
Unrefined brown sugars taste fudgy and treacly and are perfect for toffee-like sauces.
Once these were distilled from molasses, which left a black treacly taste simmering underneath the juniper and other botanicals.
It's treacly and cloying, and all just a bit too neatly wrapped up at the end.
Yes, they are, and I'm sure power grids endured redlining surges as garbage disposals clean up the treacly detritus en masse.
Like far too many bottom-of-the-barrel comedies, this one eventually decides to take a left turn into treacly melodrama, which is about the worst move it could possibly make.
I long for the days when comics weren't so treacly and warm and fuzzy.
Here it is, unthought of, unremembered, treacly, right here in Jim Dine's big dark heart, which needs cleaning now, front and back.
The dark treacly colours of Adriaen Brouwer's Interior of a Tavern suit the murk and smoke of the pot-houses favoured by that grimly observant wastrel.
The words we hear from Mary Alice in her treacly voice-over at the beginning and the end of each episode are as bromidic as wisdom gets.
It avoids that treacly, touchy-feely ground on which Democrats so love to walk.
And we all remember good-but-overpraised songs like If I Had a Hammer and the treacly classic Where Have All the Flowers Gone?
Photographs from 1909 show a much lighter tint to the wood than the dark treacly stain most will remember.
I suppose it was inevitable that these two masters of treacly sentimentality would meet up one day, but I was hoping they would duel to the death instead of joining forces.
Orbison's marital disasters and his rise to fame are spoken in the kind of treacly stage-American accent that make your toes curl.
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And he set the sail, and Eliza steered as well as she could in her treacly state.
He takes a pellet of the black, treacly stuff on the end of a knitting-needle.
And, holding his reloaded Lee-Metford rifle high over his head, he plunged into the treacly sea and swam back towards the dragon.
He watched the treacly pour of the yellow fog thickening about him.
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