Examples of clichéd in a Sentence
The comedian was booed offstage after telling another clichéd knock-knock joke.
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Crossing off cliched character traits like orders on her waitressing pad, Lori is the daughter of a disgraced widow cop.
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Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 23 May 2025
But historically, exactly that distant, cliched view of the race is the point on which many hundreds of horsemen and their athletes have made a mistake.
—Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 12 May 2025
Yet much of what occurs feels cliched, as does much of the language and dialogue.
—Leigh Haber, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2025
The internet is rife with lifeless and robotic content, with creators (even senior-level business leaders) using the same prompts, cliched phrases, and tone so often that they can easily be spotted as purely AI with just a quick glance.
—Rachel Wells, Forbes.com, 20 Apr. 2025
This Marilyn is without even a smidge of the sweetness and vulnerability that features in even the most cliched takes on the icon.
—Greg Evans, Deadline, 10 Apr. 2025
Much cliched blather is spoken in the biz about old shows that seem ripped from today’s headlines.
—Chris Jones, New York Daily News, 4 Apr. 2025
It’s cliched to say, yes, but the image of the two of them, lying next to each other in the dark coal mine with the twinkles of the coal dust, lying there in the night sky.
—David Opie, IndieWire, 26 Mar. 2025
Key steers away from turning Charles into a cliched, overly cute caricature.
—Randy Myers, Mercury News, 4 Apr. 2025
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Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 23 May 2025
But historically, exactly that distant, cliched view of the race is the point on which many hundreds of horsemen and their athletes have made a mistake.
—Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 12 May 2025
Yet much of what occurs feels cliched, as does much of the language and dialogue.
—Leigh Haber, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2025
The internet is rife with lifeless and robotic content, with creators (even senior-level business leaders) using the same prompts, cliched phrases, and tone so often that they can easily be spotted as purely AI with just a quick glance.
—Rachel Wells, Forbes.com, 20 Apr. 2025
This Marilyn is without even a smidge of the sweetness and vulnerability that features in even the most cliched takes on the icon.
—Greg Evans, Deadline, 10 Apr. 2025
Much cliched blather is spoken in the biz about old shows that seem ripped from today’s headlines.
—Chris Jones, New York Daily News, 4 Apr. 2025
It’s cliched to say, yes, but the image of the two of them, lying next to each other in the dark coal mine with the twinkles of the coal dust, lying there in the night sky.
—David Opie, IndieWire, 26 Mar. 2025
Key steers away from turning Charles into a cliched, overly cute caricature.
—Randy Myers, Mercury News, 4 Apr. 2025
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“Clichéd.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/clich%C3%A9d. Accessed 1 Jun. 2025.
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