How to Use ear candy in a Sentence

ear candy

noun

• Or a shiny gold cuff that'll take anyone's ear candy up a notch?
  — Glamour, 31 Oct. 2019
• The guitar solos are excellent, and the track sticks in your mind like a piece of ear candy.
  — Mark Richardson, WSJ, 29 Aug. 2022
• The season’s It piece is meant to hang prettily off of one’s lobes, but Scott’s creations are far more than mere ear candy.
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 13 Mar. 2019
• There are little ear hooks, ear candy, on those original records.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 16 Mar. 2022
• The song is ear candy, and a certain kitsch factor is probably part of its enduring appeal.
  — Paul Grein, Billboard, 29 Sep. 2020
• Earrings Meghan and Kate both kept their jewelry simple, but the Cartier ear candy was a little different for the two brides.
  — Megan Decker, Harper's BAZAAR, 19 May 2018
• The track is a concentrated dose of ear candy, made of pastel synths that swirl with the richness and silkiness of milk chocolate, and bright background melodies that sparkle like sonic Pop Rocks.
  — Katie Bain, Billboard, 28 Oct. 2022
• Built out of urgent piano stabs, laser synths, kick drum and a truly delectable melody -- layered underneath lyrics about meeting the man of your dreams in your actual dreams -- the song was pure ear candy.
  — Katie Bain, Billboard, 29 Sep. 2020
• An amalgam of textures, tones and tempos, the 13-track opus delivers plenty of ear candy for guitar nerds to salivate over, but real heart — often a broken one — lies underneath its mazes of synth, stately piano and spaceship blips and beeps.
  — Janine Schaults, chicagotribune.com, 26 Feb. 2018
• Then again, creating ear candy is Coldplay’s specialty.
  — George Varga, sandiegouniontribune.com, 4 Oct. 2017
• Fortunately, Ripa’s reconstructive surgery allows her to still wear sparkly ear candy.
  — Maria Yagoda, PEOPLE.com, 11 Dec. 2019
• Addressing issues like self-esteem, good relationships, sh--ty relationships, depression, self-love and other real life material with an accessible vulnerability, to many Scholler's work is less ear candy and more of a rally cry to just keep going.
  — Katie Bain, Billboard, 1 Oct. 2020

Last Updated: 7 Dec 2024