hard-boiled
Example Sentences
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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
As his deceit becomes apparent, the music shifts from crisp hip-hop beats to a hard-boiled film noir crescendo.
From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2026
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 ● Feb. 20, 2026
Morning begins with a trip, by car, to the Holiday gas station’s convenience store, where I buy a pop container full of ice and a packet of two hard-boiled eggs.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
