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
Start with fully hard-boiled eggs: whites set, yolks cooked through but still tender.
From Salon • Apr. 14, 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
If he wasn’t rolling out a new beer keg, he was placing hard-boiled eggs in a wire hamper.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
