It was the smell of decaying flesh, mingled with oil and fish, and lying on the air, thick and cloying, like an inescapable fog.

And here, the cloying air pressed upon him, heavier with portent than with smoke, pregnant with a sense of tremendous forces rapidly building beyond restraint.

But the cloying air seemingly had no effect upon Nacoya.

It grew steadily darker and cooler, so by midafternoon it appeared as twilight, and the cloying air held a damp chill which seeped into the clothing of any who ventured out into it.

The flavor is distinctly supernatural, the texture otherworldly, and now the laundry detergent smells like burning incense, and the cloying air seems thick with unseen presences.

The cloying air of defeat was enough of a nemesis right now.

The air, so cloying with the heavy scents of the crowd, had turned chill.

He parted the scissors without a noise, held them up in the cloying air.

Her blouse was sweat-soaked in the cloying air.

She surprised me by igniting a tobac-stick, then sucking in a long breath before blowing a cloud of smoke dreamily into the cloying air.