hard candy
Example Sentences
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Once again, our heroine is a steely, scrappy young woman who has a single vice — Weaving’s Grace had a penchant for cigarettes; Barrera’s Joey gobbles hard candy.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2024
The hard candy - known locally as "love on a stick" - was presumably thrown as an act of affection, but caused the singer huge discomfort.
From BBC • Jun. 19, 2023
Most people give little thought to Earth’s deep interior, thinking of our home planet as simple nested layers, like a jawbreaker hard candy.
From Washington Post • Apr. 10, 2023
Nancy Oliver and Allison Miller, the creator and showrunner, give the series an astute feminist grounding under its hard candy shell.
From New York Times • May 30, 2022
His frame was delicate, his wrists as narrow as mine, with knobs of bone that looked like they could be broken off like hard candy.
From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer
