How to Use jelly bean in a Sentence

jelly bean

noun
  • Spin the wheel and then pick up the jelly bean that matches the same color.
    Leah Campano, Seventeen, 8 Apr. 2023
  • Carve eyes, then hot-glue 2 black jelly beans as pupils.
    Woman's Day Staff, Woman's Day, 25 July 2018
  • Fill the tray with light blue jelly beans or pumpkin seeds.
    Karen Hugg, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2023
  • Pipe dot of frosting on front tip of each head and add jelly bean nose.
    The Good Housekeeping Test Kitchen, Good Housekeeping, 27 July 2018
  • To distract him, the 4-year-old was given a jelly bean.
    Arkansas Online, 11 Feb. 2023
  • Best of all, the short-legged contestants, all 100 of them, look like the spawn of Weebles and jelly beans.
    Washington Post, 14 June 2019
  • Dress up the lamb with jelly bean eyes and a pretty ribbon around its neck.
    Mary Meade, chicagotribune.com, 14 Apr. 2022
  • There were people to asked to count the number of bubbles in a bar of soap, the number of jelly beans in a jar.
    CBS News, 5 Mar. 2023
  • Despite the name, Jelly Beam is not a primer filled with jelly beans.
    Sarah Wu, Teen Vogue, 16 Oct. 2017
  • Hummingbird eggs are tiny, about the size of jelly beans!
    Southern Living, 11 May 2018
  • Love chocolate? Can’t stop yourself when the jelly beans are in plain sight?
    Amy Gorin, NBC News, 30 Nov. 2017
  • Instead of a wreath, hang a fun jelly bean monogram on your front door for spring.
    Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Benjamin got a tour of the warehouse on the Jelly Belly train and learned a lot about what jelly beans are made of.
    Dara Elasfar, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2019
  • That's enough jelly beans to circle the globe not once, not twice, but three times — or to fill a plastic egg the size of a nine-story building.
    Lauren Smith McDonough, House Beautiful, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Pour through strainer into a coupe glass and garnish with a few jelly beans.
    Emily Price, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The centrifugal force alone would reduce him to the size of a soggy jelly bean inside that suit.
    Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 17 Oct. 2012
  • Pipe snowman heads and use mini chocolate chips for eyes and jelly beans for noses.
    Woman's Day Kitchen, Woman's Day, 29 Nov. 2018
  • The crowd was asked not to cheer or applaud to avoid scaring the child, who was given a jelly bean, the station reported.
    Justin Spike, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Feb. 2023
  • One user took it a step further by adding jelly beans for an Easter treat.
    Hollyanna McCollom, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Jamison also told us that Jelly Bellies were the first jelly beans in space.
    Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 Oct. 2017
  • Pick up these plastic Easter eggs for just $12, then fill them with jelly beans (or just eat them yourself!).
    Amy Schulman, Peoplemag, 6 Apr. 2023
  • On YouTube, videos of celebrities reacting to the jelly beans have garnered millions of views.
    Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN, 30 Oct. 2019
  • Indeed, right down to the smallest detail, such as the color of jelly beans in a bowl on the dresser matching the walls and carpeting.
    Sacramento Bee, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Anna’s normally brood two to three times a year, each time producing two tiny eggs about the size of jelly beans.
    Ernie Cowan, sandiegouniontribune.com, 14 Sep. 2017
  • Kangaroos are pregnant for only 30 to 35 days before giving birth to a baby about the size of a jelly bean, the zoo said.
    BostonGlobe.com, 14 Sep. 2019
  • Make chimney: Coat with icing and add speckled white jelly beans.
    Amanda Garrity, Good Housekeeping, 14 Nov. 2018
  • But that doesn't mean that those Easter baskets have to be filled with nothing but chocolate and jelly beans, either.
    Amanda Garrity, Good Housekeeping, 15 Feb. 2023
  • My birthday is often near Easter, and my mom started making it in the shape of a bunny one year, with licorice whiskers, jelly bean eyes, and a cake bowtie.
    Alex Beggs, Bon Appetit, 10 Mar. 2017
  • There's something so hilarious to me about a single jelly bean.
    Megan Farokhmanesh, WIRED, 29 Feb. 2024
  • The companies are fighting to hold on to consumers tempted to defect from chocolate in favor of jelly beans, salty snacks or other rival treats.
    John Towfighi, CNN, 28 Mar. 2024

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