How to Use preachy in a Sentence

preachy

adjective
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  • We were put off by the speaker's preachy tone.
  • Some of the plot points feel a little clunky; a few of the monologues get preachy.
    — Margaret Gray, latimes.com, 13 Mar. 2018
  • The results should by all rights have been preachy in the extreme.
    — Terry Teachout, WSJ, 3 May 2018
  • Few films have captured in such a thrilling, non-preachy way the essence of Black Pride.
    — John Blake, CNN, 19 June 2022
  • This is not meant to be a preachy post or to try to tell anyone to do anything.
    — Lisa Desantis, Health.com, 11 Jan. 2018
  • But the artist did a good job of mixing in his hits with his message so that the night didn't feel too preachy.
    — John-John Williams Iv, baltimoresun.com, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Everyone is so afraid to be earnest or afraid to be like preachy or teach-y.
    — Kate Stanhope, latimes.com, 10 June 2018
  • In their eyes, by contrast, the West appears fickle and preachy.
    — The Economist, 24 Oct. 2019
  • L'Engle was a Christian, and that's evident here, too, though not in a preachy way.
    — Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 Jan. 2020
  • Talking about climate change can be bleak and, at its worse, preachy.
    — Allie Wist, Bon Appétit, 6 Dec. 2019
  • Such is the case with Kossakovsky’s film, which is not preachy but leaves it up to the viewer to discern a message.
    — Peter Keough, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Aug. 2019
  • At times, the film’s insistence on linking the silent to the sacred can border on preachy.
    — Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times, 22 June 2017
  • All because a bunch of men in the academy found the movie too preachy and a bit threatening.
    — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2024
  • And use your voice in a way that doesn’t feel preachy or overly didactic.
    — Emilia Petrarca, The Cut, 16 Feb. 2018
  • Ms. Egan, a hospice chaplain, has a down-to-earth, never-preachy style.
    — Diane Cole, WSJ, 23 Apr. 2017
  • But Menashe is wise not to be preachy, or to make sweeping judgments about Hasidic life.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 2 Aug. 2017
  • All that may sound like a recipe for something big, bloated and preachy, but Monae keeps her hips at the forefront.
    — Greg Kot, chicagotribune.com, 27 Apr. 2018
  • The stereotype of the endlessly preachy vegan is past its sell-by date.
    — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 30 Aug. 2019
  • And, also bearing the Harvard stamp, the preachy former mayor of a college town.
    — Matthew Scully, National Review, 23 Jan. 2020
  • That theme and the anti-bullfighting message, so subtle in the book, are made bolder in the film, but never preachy.
    — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 15 Dec. 2017
  • Not to get too food preachy (because, honestly, who’s going to listen to a guy who drinks his beer on ice)?
    — Adam Rapoport, Bon Appétit, 30 July 2019
  • To put a face to the agriculture—put it within a product and serve it to people—without being so preachy about it.
    — Alex Delany, Bon Appétit, 17 Oct. 2019
  • Curtain Call: Without being too preachy, this is the kind of show that draws me personally to Fringe.
    — Trevor Fraser, OrlandoSentinel.com, 16 May 2017
  • Eliot is a novelist, even when writing a preachy novel.
    — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Now that the preachy warning is over, here’s the awesome news: Libraries all over the country are giving out free eclipse-viewing glasses.
    — Angela Fritz, Washington Post, 28 June 2017
  • Scan the second and third tiers, where the candidates have been a little bland and preachy, and possibilities abound.
    — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 30 July 2019
  • Without even turning preachy, for that matter, though the drama gets its thunderclap of a start from a sermon.
    — Tim Smith, baltimoresun.com, 18 Sep. 2017
  • But Dave Johns, in his first starring role as 59-year-old Daniel, is so human, so real, that Loach's film never becomes too preachy.
    — Laura Demarco, cleveland.com, 8 June 2017
  • While the message isn’t overly preachy, audiences will keenly understand the dangers of becoming unstuck in time by the final credits.
    — Chris Snellgrove, EW.com, 2 Apr. 2024
  • One of the Good Ones is the type of writing both theater and television could use more of — genuinely funny, topical, and heartfelt without feeling preachy or overly sentimental.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 18 Mar. 2024

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