How to Use clichéd in a Sentence

clichéd

adjective

• The comedian was booed offstage after telling another clichéd knock-knock joke.
• The bottom line: Some lines are old and a bit cliched, but still be true.
  — Neil Irwin, Axios, 6 Aug. 2024
• 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
• Sometimes, the writing can be over-the-top sappy, even cliched.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 18 Apr. 2022
• In that typical cliched way that men don't talk about stuff.
  — Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 2 May 2021
• Lyrics make nods to cliched sentiments that could have been sung by both Jone Jett and Aaron Carter.
  — Margaret Farrell, SPIN, 12 Sep. 2024
• 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 play to its credit resists the more cliched route of a rescue narrative.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Impressionism can seem the most benign, the most complacent, the most cliched of art styles.
  — Washington Post, 7 July 2022
• 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
• There’s an easy, cliched way to sound design drunkenness.
  — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 8 Oct. 2024
• Because most poems contain few words, there is no room to waste on tired or cliched language.
  — Esther Choy, Forbes, 26 June 2022
• 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
• It’s cliched to note that this country is divided on many major issues.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 3 June 2021
• On the show, Julian’s father Senior (Beau Bridges) is the head of their firm, making his son’s claim to partner possibly cliched but strong.
  — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 31 Jan. 2025
• Still, the intoxicating imagery gives even the most cliched moments an epic sweep.
  — Chicago Reader, 28 June 2017
• 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
• The movie is beautiful without wasting its time on cliched beauty.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 7 Sep. 2017
• There are plenty of games with cliched stories, but Deadlight isn’t fresh in the gameplay department, either.
  — Ryan Rigney, WIRED, 31 July 2012
• 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
• When the horn section lights up midway through the song, the aesthetics of CAKE come into focus, more an earnest sum of their parts than a cliched hit, designed to grab 15 minutes and get out.
  — Niko Stratis, SPIN, 19 Jan. 2022
• When Daisy slams the bedroom door in frustration, June can’t help but smile at the cliched rebellion.
  — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 8 Apr. 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 only states of being — all stories have become obsolete and cliched, and have resolved themselves.
  — John Penner, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2026
• In one rather cliched moment, Springsteen is buying his first new car.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 24 Oct. 2025