hard-boiled
Example Sentences
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Perhaps you’ve heard of “car-cuterie”—a spread of cheeses, salumi, fresh fruit and hard-boiled eggs assembled entirely from convenience store shelves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026
Clutton-Brock has joked that his most important discovery was meerkats’ fondness for hard-boiled egg.
From Slate ● May 10, 2026
A hard-boiled egg is something else entirely: firm, portable, reliable, tucked into lunchboxes or sliced over a salad.
From Salon ● Apr. 3, 2026
They added that while historically, visitors "turned up with hard-boiled eggs, more recently these are often switched for chocolate eggs to be rolled down the hill".
From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2026
There were no mirrors in camp, but he imagined he looked like he had a hard-boiled egg sticking out of him.
From "Holes" by Louis Sachar
