hard-boiled
Example Sentences
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Hard-boiled eggs — colored or not — will last for about a week in the refrigerator.
From Salon • Apr. 14, 2022
Hard-boiled survivors, these women share a bond of sweat, having labored together for more than 20 years and now watching their sons join them at the plant.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 7, 2018
Hard-boiled, some hold, should be started in cool water on the stove, then brought to bubbling.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 19, 2017
Hard-boiled novelist Jim Thompson is name-checked early and reverently in "Bad Turn Worse," a down-and-dirty robbery yarn set in rural Texas from co-directing brothers Zeke and Simon Hawkins, making their feature debut.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 13, 2014
Bod said, “The lady who’s looking after me. She makes horrible food. Hard-boiled egg soup and things.”
From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman
