hard-boiled

Example Sentences

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Crime fiction became more realistic, an approach presaged by Dashiell Hammett and other hard-boiled American writers in the 1920s.

From The Wall Street Journal

There was a small metal table covered in fresh fruits, breads, butter, cheeses, and hard-boiled eggs.

From Literature

She was a fan of hard-boiled eggs and slices of fresh avocado, and she, too, loved to read about the pink of strawberry ice lollies and the red of sunsets and the orange of oranges.

From The Wall Street Journal

For my daughter’s sake, I never left our hotel or Airbnb without a full water bottle and a hard-boiled egg or two from the breakfast buffet.

From Los Angeles Times

“It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime,” Jake writes, “but at night it is another thing.”

From Salon