chocolate-box

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of chocolate-box The trains used here aren’t big – sometimes only two carriages — but the gentle trundle through soaring valleys and chocolate-box villages is what captures the heart. James March, Travel + Leisure, 3 Feb. 2025 Founded in the heart of the British countryside, the Cotswolds, an area that's famous for its chocolate-box villages and charming country pubs, is the British lifestyle brand Bamford. Felicity Carter, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025 Art cycles in and out of fashion, and nothing could have been less suited to twentieth-century taste than Boucher’s chocolate-box cherubs. Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2025 The trains used here aren’t big – sometimes only two carriages — but the gentle trundle through soaring valleys and chocolate-box villages is what captures the heart. James March, Travel + Leisure, 3 Feb. 2025 Founded in the heart of the British countryside, the Cotswolds, an area that's famous for its chocolate-box villages and charming country pubs, is the British lifestyle brand Bamford. Felicity Carter, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chocolate-box
Adjective
  • When the sun journeys through sentimental Cancer, there is a greater focus on home, family and emotional stability.
    Valerie Mesa, People.com, 21 June 2025
  • This is Spielberg at his most pure and sensational, an undiluted cinematic experience that lacks any of his sentimental claptrap and steers clear of his tendency for multiple endings.
    Tim Grierson, Vulture, 20 June 2025
Adjective
  • Crystal Skull is easily Spielberg’s laziest, sloppiest work — even the action sequences seem phoned-in — and it’s filled with unforgivable howlers: Shia LaBeouf’s limp attempt at being a bad boy, Cate Blanchett’s hammy villain, the goddamn fridge scene.
    Tim Grierson, Vulture, 20 June 2025
  • The Cardinals took full advantage of the sloppy inning, scoring five runs on the way to clobbering the Sox 12-2 in front of 16,974 at Rate Field.
    LaMond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 18 June 2025
Adjective
  • Our formulas are oxybenzone-free, water- and sweat-resistant, and designed lightweight unlike typical sport sunscreens that leave you feeling sticky or break down in the heat of competition.
    Dave Knox, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025
  • But what really wowed us was how easily the sticky stuff washed away from the pan.
    Mark Marino, Bon Appetit Magazine, 26 June 2025

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“Chocolate-box.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chocolate-box. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.

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