hard candy
noun
candy, often fruit flavored, made by boiling together sugar and corn syrup.
Origin of hard candy
1First recorded in 1920–25
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How to use hard candy in a sentence
Back in the day, babysitting meant doling out some hard candy and popping a Disney flick into the VCR.
"They tell me at the candy store that very hard candy doesn't last well," she said.
Ethel Morton and the Christmas Ship | Mabell S. C. SmithWe should never crack nuts, crush hard candy, or bite off stout thread with the teeth.
A Practical Physiology | Albert F. BlaisdellThey started with the smallest children and gave each one of them one orange and one sack of hard candy.
Frying Pan Farm | Elizabeth Brown PryorThey are a small, hard candy, and being thrown with vicious emphasis, they rattled upon the bare floor like bullets.
The Debtor | Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
The snow cooled it at once, and turned it into clear, hard candy.
The Nursery, April 1873, Vol. XIII. | Various
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