How to Use clichéd in a Sentence

clichéd

adjective
  • The comedian was booed offstage after telling another clichéd knock-knock joke.
  • Sometimes, the writing can be over-the-top sappy, even cliched.
    — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 18 Apr. 2022
  • In one rather cliched moment, Springsteen is buying his first new car.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Because most poems contain few words, there is no room to waste on tired or cliched language.
    — Esther Choy, Forbes, 26 June 2022
  • 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
  • The play to its credit resists the more cliched route of a rescue narrative.
    — Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2021
  • In most cases, saying a woman is flirting to get ahead would be a cliched and rude insult.
    — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 3 Jan. 2020
  • This sumo wrestling is not the cliched images of 600-pound men in nothing but top knots and loin cloths.
    — Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2022
  • It’s cliched to note that this country is divided on many major issues.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 3 June 2021
  • Jacquet is the most vivacious of the bunch, but she's given a lot of cliched coquettish things to do.
    — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 18 Sep. 2017
  • The movie is beautiful without wasting its time on cliched beauty.
    — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 7 Sep. 2017
  • Charlie had his typical, cliched rock-n-roll issues with substance abuse.
    — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 26 Aug. 2021
  • There are moments in the film that may feel corny or contrived, as often happens in the cliched world of music biopics.
    — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 8 Sep. 2020
  • Impressionism can seem the most benign, the most complacent, the most cliched of art styles.
    — Washington Post, 7 July 2022
  • Still, the intoxicating imagery gives even the most cliched moments an epic sweep.
    — Chicago Reader, 28 June 2017
  • At times, lines that are meant to be conversational or colloquial feel rote or cliched.
    — Carole V. Bell, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2023
  • Lyrics make nods to cliched sentiments that could have been sung by both Jone Jett and Aaron Carter.
    — Margaret Farrell, SPIN, 12 Sep. 2024
  • Its clumsier and more cliched moments — and there are many — are perhaps meant to be passed off as the kind of stuff Gary and his pals like.
    — Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2023
  • When Daisy slams the bedroom door in frustration, June can’t help but smile at the cliched rebellion.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Ageism shows up, for example, in some commercials, with the cliched generational put-downs.
    — Chicago Tribune, 8 Feb. 2025
  • Key steers away from turning Charles into a cliched, overly cute caricature.
    — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 4 Apr. 2025
  • That’s kind of cliched, but how to really invest in yourself and your vision as an artist in a bigger and long-term way and not just project to project.
    — Tori Latham, The Atlantic, 24 Sep. 2017
  • There are only states of being — all stories have become obsolete and cliched, and have resolved themselves.
    — John Penner, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Honking horns and screeching tires used to be a cliched scene-setting device for writers describing Paris.
    — Marie Patino, Bloomberg, 20 Mar. 2026
  • There are plenty of games with cliched stories, but Deadlight isn’t fresh in the gameplay department, either.
    — Ryan Rigney, WIRED, 31 July 2012
  • 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
  • Even in the 1930s, the cliched depictions of national dances in the second act came under fire.
    — Sarah L. Kaufman, Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2022
  • How did Emily manage to quadruple her Instagram following in a few days with such inane, cliched posts?
    — Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2020
  • The occasional joint has been replaced by a half a cliched Klonopin before a restless night of post-apocalyptic news.
    — Nicole Mann Novick, Glamour, 20 Apr. 2018
  • There are subtle hints of green — namely in the shamrock brooch — but Weber wanted to move away from the need for cliched green to represent her homeland.
    — Caoimhe O'Neill, The Athletic, 24 July 2024

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