How to Use hard candy in a Sentence

hard candy

noun
  • For decades the candy eggs — as well as hard candies — were made in the Southwest Baltimore plant on Caton Avenue.
    Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 30 Mar. 2024
  • Don't offer high-risk foods like grapes, popcorn, chunks of meat and cheese and hard candy.
    Sarah Schreiber, Good Housekeeping, 23 Nov. 2016
  • Each sale could buy me three pieces of hard candy from the candywalla.
    Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 29 May 2018
  • Water and hard candy will be available at the checkpoint both days.
    Christina Hyder, baltimoresun.com, 3 Dec. 2019
  • From gummies to hard candy to chocolate, Sugar has it all.
    Birmingham Magazine, AL.com, 6 Mar. 2018
  • For example, a slippery hard candy with a round shape about the size of a drinking straw could block a windpipe.
    Lauren Harrison, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 3 Apr. 2021
  • My parents tried every trick in the book, from tying them with floss to a doorknob and pulling them, red-faced, to having me chew hard candy.
    Sari Botton, Longreads, 2 Oct. 2017
  • Ever wondered what those hard candies your grandmother kept in a bowl for years taste like?
    Scottie Andrew, CNN, 29 Feb. 2020
  • Both sides of the family had hard candy luck during the pandemic.
    Kevin Fisher-Paulson, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Mar. 2022
  • Presbyterians around the United States would send used clothes and small gifts such as cards, jacks and hard candy.
    Author: Charles Wohlforth, Alaska Dispatch News, 30 June 2017
  • According to the Zollipop website, the line features lollipops, hard candy drops and taffy that help clean teeth.
    Andrea Perez Balderrama, Detroit Free Press, 11 July 2019
  • He’s long been a connoisseur of hard candy during games, but only in the first, third, fifth, seventh and ninth innings.
    New York Times, 7 June 2022
  • Other fliers were seen being held down by hard candy on a local running trail.
    Anne Branigin, The Root, 15 Jan. 2018
  • Soothing Treats Children aged four and older can suck on throat or cough lozenges, sugar-free hard candies, or even frozen berries.
    Jeannette Moninger, Parents, 23 June 2023
  • Because of medicines giving me dry mouth, my dentist said eat sugar-free hard candies.
    Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 7 Dec. 2018
  • The easiest way to take CBD oils for insomnia is in the form of an edible like gummies or hard candy.
    Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 22 July 2022
  • Actors, resuming their war on phones and hard candy now that masks are no longer required, are up in arms about bad etiquette.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2023
  • The flavor is smooth, with ripe strawberries, marshmallow, peach tea, pine, and red hard candy.
    oregonlive, 27 Jan. 2023
  • Or, if hard candies aren't your thing, then today is also a day to celebrate oatmeal muffins.
    Sydney Scott, Essence.com, 19 Dec. 2017
  • There is no less practical shape for eating hard candy.
    Drew Magary, GQ, 19 Dec. 2017
  • There are lacy bonnets for vegetables, glass knife and fork rests shaped like pieces of hard candy and a candelabra made to hold eggs rather than candles.
    New York Times, 13 May 2022
  • Kaur also recommends limiting the time a child sucks on hard candy such as a lollipop.
    Kate Sequeira, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Still stacked below, and pointed out along the tour, are hundreds of tins of crackers and hard candy, as well as water in barrels and plastic bottles.
    Scott Craven, azcentral, 5 Mar. 2018
  • First, try using a hard candy product instead of gummies.
    Dallas News, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Sometimes fentanyl is absorbed through patches applied to the skin, or people consume it by sucking on hard candies dosed with the drug.
    Erin Allday, SFChronicle.com, 23 June 2019
  • The sweet-chili sauce tasted like hard candy spiked with red-pepper flakes and reminded me of my favorite McDonald’s sauce growing up: sweet-and-sour.
    New York Times, 14 July 2021
  • And there are also a lot of edibles, such as cookies, brownies, cake, crackers, hard candy, soda, taffy, and potato chips.
    Dcasarett, Esquire, 22 July 2015
  • An experience that began by ripping open the package to pull out one of the Lik-A-Stix, a chalky-sweet semi-hard candy stick shaped almost like a tongue depressor.
    Jami Curl, Bon Appetit, 19 Apr. 2017
  • From there, stay hydrated, eat small amounts of food throughout your trip, and suck on hard candies or ginger lozenges for a little extra digestive help.
    Katie Way, SELF, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Once again our heroine is a steely, scrappy young woman who has a single vice — Weaving’s Grace had a penchant for cigarettes; Barrera’s Joey gobbles hard candy.
    Katie Walsh, Twin Cities, 19 Apr. 2024

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