jelly
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Jamie Crook, who recently moved to the city from Oxford, said he was shocked at the large turnout and "had jelly legs the whole time".
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
Then the question becomes: What’s the point of retirement savings if you have more when you die than when you started retirement, and meanwhile you’re living on peanut butter and jelly?
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
Improved full-year financial estimates came from a diverse set of companies, including healthcare companies McKesson and Charles River Laboratories International and jelly giant Smucker.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
Nurse bees eat this material and process its nutrients into glandular secretions, including royal jelly, which are then fed to developing larvae.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
It was a closet filled with hundreds and hundreds of jelly bean fish.
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
Warmer ocean temperatures can also increase the presence of sea jellies and other gelatinous creatures, Jaros said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026
This coordination allows comb jellies to maintain their orientation as they move through the water.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 6, 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
There were gray, ancient dried fish and jellies and potatoes sprouting wigs of grass.
From "Milkweed" by Jerry Spinelli
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
But for anyone feeling adventurous, pie 'n' mash can also be served with stewed jellied eels - another Cockney favourite.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2024
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
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
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
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
Baking and boiling and roasting and jellying went on in quantity, for Mrs. Starling was a great cook, and could do things in style when she chose.
From Diana by Susan Warner
