How to Use taffy in a Sentence

taffy

noun

• The taffy was brittle, and clerks behind the counter broke it to size with a hammer.
  — Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 1 Nov. 2022
• These folks have been sweetening lives here since the early 1950s, and the taffy recipe hasn't changed a whit.
  — Tracey Minkin, Southern Living, 9 Mar. 2021
• Because what adolescent doesn’t love the thrills and chills of a group taffy pull?
  — Chris Hewitt, Star Tribune, 30 July 2020
• His father’s best year amounted to about 9,000 pounds of taffy.
  — Lauren Delgado, OrlandoSentinel.com, 23 May 2018
• Black Jacks, a salt water taffy with a swirl of licorice in the center, were popular.
  — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Feb. 2023
• The stuffed roll would be sold wrapped like a taffy in white parchment paper twisted at both ends.
  — Nik Sharma, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Mar. 2018
• Sucked into the machine, my nipples looked like long, pink taffy, stretched and then milked.
  — Meaghan O'Connell, Longreads, 10 Apr. 2018
• Why aren’t the taffy farmers signing a loyalty oath to me?
  — Evan Waite, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2020
• Those with a sweet tooth often bought 50 cents’ worth of molasses taffy from Ortmuller’s stall.
  — Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 1 Nov. 2022
• The skin flap is then stretched down and taut (think pulling taffy), a new hole is made for your belly button, and excess skin is cut away.
  — Hallie Levine, Redbook, 14 Mar. 2011
• One survivor was an almost two-ton taffy machine, which is still in use.
  — Chris Lindsley, Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2019
• Instead of the leisurely, taffy churn from three nights ago, this lava was liquid.
  — Heidi Julavit, The New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2021
• The insect would grab a strand of webbing and stretch the silk in opposite directions, as if pulling taffy.
  — Traci Watson, National Geographic, 25 Oct. 2016
• Each year, the ice sheet lost some weight as ice flowed like taffy from the center of the ice sheet, through funnel-like outlet glaciers at its edge, spilling into the ocean.
  — Jonathan Nackstrand, National Geographic, 15 Oct. 2019
• Then the plastic goes through an extruder machine, which spins and pulls it like taffy to turn it into yarn.
  — Medea Giordano, WIRED, 24 Jan. 2023
• In my mouth, the kolodka turned ethereally gooey, like soft taffy.
  — Anton Troianovski, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2020
• The next few seconds stretched into minutes that stretched into hours, all a taffy of numbness.
  — Sarah Stewart Johnson, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2020
• Before the candy is put into the taffy stretcher, a large dollop of marshmallow is whipped—by hand!—into the base.
  — Alex Pastron, Bon Appétit, 28 Oct. 2019
• But a winter snowstorm is a perfect time to whip up a favorite treat called sugar on snow, or maple taffy.
  — Jen Rose Smith, CNN, 19 Nov. 2020
• What about all the saltwater taffy shops that lined (and still line) Elkhorn Avenue, the main drag of a mountain town 1,242 miles from the nearest body of salt water?
  — Chryss Cada, The Denver Post, 27 Apr. 2017
• Already low on cash and with not much more to eat than salt water taffy, Roger hitched in to King of Prussia and had his parents wire money.
  — Rick Romell, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2019
• The 30 baskets of saltwater taffy, whipped, not pulled and hard to find, have already proved very popular.
  — Marta Yamamoto, The Mercury News, 8 May 2017
• Whipping the taffy is said to result in a softer taffy, more delectable than pulled taffy.
  — Kolbie Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Dec. 2022
• The retro-style store features 35 different flavors of saltwater taffy and a mix of old and new candy brands.
  — Megan Mitchell, The Denver Post, 13 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
• Shops could bottle and sell this place’s trademark fog — alongside smoked salmon and saltwater taffy.
  — — Leah Sottile, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2017
• The other features funnel cake mix, popcorn, taffy, honey sticks, deep-fried Oreo mix and a souvenir mug.
  — Rick Nelson, Star Tribune, 21 July 2021
• By the end of the night, each of your children is likely to be in possession of a pillowcase, heavy with tiny candy bars, taffy and the occasional box of raisins.
  — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 31 Oct. 2017
• Teleported Bonus: Among other things, a good fistful of the sticky, taffy-like candy Zaza, a Brazillian treat.
  — Piers Marchant, Arkansas Online, 14 May 2021
• Beneath that, starting at roughly 100 kilometers deep, is the asthenosphere, where mantle rocks are warm enough to flow like hot taffy.
  — Alexandra Witze, Discover Magazine, 30 July 2018

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