Sentence examples for cliched from inspiring English sources

The word "cliched" is correct in written English
It is used to describe something that is overused and lacks originality. Example: "The plot of the movie was so cliched that I could predict the ending within the first ten minutes."

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cliched

verb

Past of cliche

Exact(60)

Take that cosy, cliched history of black Britain that begins with the Pathe newsreel of Empire Windrush docking at Tilbury.

Poppy, a girl suffering from anxiety is constantly going on about how cliched her life is.

The thing that intrigues me about this book is how really cliched it is for a protagonist that's so conscious of it.

It would almost be worth saying that much of the Tower Commission's recent portrayal of the events surrounding the Irangate affair could be read as high comedy--if the affair weren't so highly tragic & if it weren't already cliched to be saying both these things.

I'm being a bit cliched here.

So often those who work with sex workers hear them talking about the fact that being a sex worker is only a part of what they do; cliched as it may sound, they are also mothers, sisters, lovers, housewives, or whatever it may be.

Rushdie also put the boot into what he called Scott's "cliched" prose.

"From past clashes, even in the Champions League games we've played, they're intimidated by big bodies and by the aggression that's shown by Aussie players," said Ognenovski, seemingly not bothered about sounding cliched.

I have to say The Theory of Everything is comparable in many ways, with similar narrative tropes and tricks about flawed-genius scientists – but The Theory of Everything is a much realer, truer and less cliched story.

But in the world world, there was news at least as big, but without the cliched metaphors.

This portrait of a family life consumed by physical necessities is how the non-disabled world sees us – a cliched view that bears no relation to our daily life.

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