jelly
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A squat little gem painted gold, filled with vermouth jelly, surrounded by blueberry toast.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026
Everyone has a different jar of jelly beans with which to make their calculations.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
A queen does not emerge from royal jelly alone.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 23, 2026
Eating salad, ice cream, jelly and soup are all good sources of water too.
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026
Jake spied a glass jar of jelly beans sitting on the greenroom table.
From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein
Warmer ocean temperatures can also increase the presence of sea jellies and other gelatinous creatures, Jaros said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026
Marine life that most people never see floated into view, including delicate comb jellies with pulsing fairy-light illuminations along their sides.
From Barron's ● Jan. 26, 2026
Fancy cocktail napkins are a big seller, as are specialty jellies in flavors like hot pepper and cinnamon pear.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 6, 2025
"Comb jellies may be the oldest animal group that exists and so they provide a unique opportunity to study basic but fundamental aspects of how animals move and interact in the world."
From Salon ● Nov. 10, 2024
It was hard to imagine how anybody could ever become an expert in jellies.
From "The Thing About Jellyfish" by Ali Benjamin
The now elusive species was once common and frequently caught in the River Thames to make eel pies and jellied eels.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026
There are close-ups of hands kneading dough, a snail sliming its way up a window and Cathy prodding a jellied fish with her finger.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2026
He imagines—and 4- to 7-year-olds see him do it—plucking a length of sunshine off the wall and using what appear to be jellied cubes of colored light to make the beams of his own lighthouse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
Datasembly measured prices for russet potatoes, roasted turkey gravy, eight buttermilk biscuits, cut green beans, jellied cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie mix, frozen pastry pie shells, whipped topping and sweet corn.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 15, 2023
This task kept her busy throughout the day and demanded so much of her time that the family began to complain that all there ever was for dinner was old string beans and jellied quince.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
Yet it has caused one hell of a stir, jellying the jaded reserve of hardcore automotive journalists and hard-nose collectors alike.
From The Verge ● Feb. 2, 2016
In the meantime, our stomachs jellying and our necks burning, we listened, avoided each other’s eyes, and picked toe jam or whatever.
From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
A whole summer of jellying and juicing, she said, hadn’t made so much mess in the kitchen.
From "Miracles on Maple Hill" by Virginia Sorensen
Hot sugar helps to jellying quickly—and the more haste there, the lighter and brighter the result.
From Dishes & Beverages of the Old South by Martha McCulloch-Williams
If the fruit is over-ripe the pectin breaks down into pectosic acid which has not the power of jellying; and as a result the fruit does not jell.
From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Thomas Jefferson Ritter
