How to Use gushy in a Sentence

gushy

adjective
  • Judging by that gushy lead-in show, the rapport wasn’t all an act.
    — Robert Verbruggen, National Review, 2 May 2020
  • For some, the gushy card that person creates would be perfect.
    — Molly Longman, refinery29.com, 14 Feb. 2022
  • Her breezy, gushy style could give the sadness of her lyrics a sneaky potency.
    — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
  • This isn't the first time the pair have been gushy about each other on social media.
    — Jenna Ryu, USA TODAY, 21 July 2021
  • This isn't the first time the home cook posted a gushy tribute to her son's latest achievements.
    — Antonia Debianchi, PEOPLE.com, 11 Apr. 2022
  • Elsewhere in their office is an old chamois responsible for a shocking array of gushy sounds.
    — Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 27 Oct. 2022
  • And last but not least, Chopra concluded her post with a gushy tribute to her 1-year-old daughter Malti.
    — USA TODAY, 14 May 2023
  • What would be even better is if the folks posting gushy messages kept up the same energy the other 364 days of the year.
    — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2023
  • The Biebs utilizes his falsetto in sensual fashion, which makes his lovey-dovey lyrics come off as more alluring than gushy.
    — Taylor Weatherby, Billboard, 9 June 2017
  • The film opens with a dizzying montage of magazine covers and clips accompanied by a stream of gushy praise from prominent fans.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Based on this gushy photo from Elizabeth's party, these legal woes seem to be the last thing on Kylie and Travis' mind.
    — Noelle Devoe, Seventeen, 2 Apr. 2018
  • Jacoby is basically a celebrant of Broadway, and his film can get gushy.
    — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Aug. 2021
  • There are no illuminating profiles, no gushy restaurant reviews.
    — Rick Nelson, Star Tribune, 12 Feb. 2021
  • There’s something admirable and disarming about an up-and-coming novelist being so gushy, boyish and unironic.
    — Ben Downing, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2018
  • Daytime-talk-show icon and rom-com trailblazer Drew Barrymore sure knows how to make an audience feel all warm and gushy inside.
    — Vulture, 12 Sep. 2022
  • The power couple made that abundantly clear with a pair of gushy Instagram tributes to each other on Valentine's day.
    — Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 15 Feb. 2020
  • The announcement may come as a shock for country fans who have followed the couple through their sappy podcast appearances and gushy acceptance speeches.
    — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2026
  • At Akikos, the fish performed as expected, with a lightly melty mouthfeel, but at Friends Only one bite unleashed a waterfall of gushy fat.
    — Cesar Hernandez, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Except the unfettered devotion in the latter is replaced by swooping strings and a gushy chorus that merely offer an antiseptic veneer.
    — Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 17 June 2022
  • Except for the unfettered devotion in the latter is replaced by swooping strings and a gushy chorus that merely offer an antiseptic veneer.
    — Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 18 June 2026
  • Perhaps no father-daughter duo is cooler than Lenny and Zoë Kravitz, but that doesn't mean the rocker is immune to all the gushy feelings fatherhood brings.
    — Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Back in March, Emily celebrated her 10-year anniversary with a gushy post about Shane on Instagram.
    — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com, 10 Sep. 2019
  • And in August of 2006, Barack Obama was winning gushy headlines in for his triumphal visit to his father’s ancestral home in Kenya.
    — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 29 Aug. 2022
  • Despite the gushy National Socialist rhetoric, telling expressions of opinion emerge—a kind that speaks eloquently for the thoughts and feelings of one small unit of Germans around the Dunkirk perimeter.
    — Robert Kershaw, WSJ, 29 July 2022
  • Emblematic of the gushy, overly credulous business and tech journalism ascendant at the time, Fortune’s story touched off a media stampede that transformed Holmes, then 30, into a business superstar.
    — Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2021
  • Everything Everywhere All at Once is a supernova of emo cartoon invention that plays its comic-bookish multiversal premise for both delirious running gags and unabashedly gushy sentimentality.
    — A.a. Dowd, Chron, 4 Feb. 2023

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