| 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. |
| Whining woodwinds cloy what should be limpid melodies. |
| 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. |
| But later, when they're over-rehearsed into being preternaturally wise and all-seeing, they start to cloy. |
| Things agreeable enough in small quantities, pall and cloy if the ration be overmuch augmented. |
| But the spectacle can cloy and a sadness lingers after the pageant has moved on as householders emerge with shovels and brooms to sweep away all trace of their work. |
