How to Use hard candy in a Sentence

hard candy

noun
  • The amount of ginger in ginger chews and hard candies can vary.
    — Lauren O'Connor, Ms, Health, 10 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • The hard candy came in a Progresso soup can.
    — Susan Selasky, Freep.com, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Water and hard candy will be available at the checkpoint both days.
    — Christina Hyder, baltimoresun.com, 3 Dec. 2019
  • Fill sugar cookie cutouts with hard candies in the middle.
    — Metro Creative Services, Boston Herald, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Other fliers were seen being held down by hard candy on a local running trail.
    — Anne Branigin, The Root, 15 Jan. 2018
  • Watch this video to see how to turn leftover hard candy into candy apples.
    — Cody Godwin, USA Today, 4 Nov. 2025
  • There were gnaw marks on a chocolate bar on the floor, and a bag of peanuts under the hard candy shelf had been gnawed open.
    — Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Ever wondered what those hard candies your grandmother kept in a bowl for years taste like?
    — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 29 Feb. 2020
  • Finally, make sure to include something fun like hard candy and a short note.
    — Christian Dashiell, Parents, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Because of medicines giving me dry mouth, my dentist said eat sugar-free hard candies.
    — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 7 Dec. 2018
  • And parents of small kids will thank you for avoiding hard candies and gum, which present a choking hazard.
    — Nafeesah Allen, Parents, 30 Sep. 2024
  • The hard candies, which launched last week, have been selling out fast—here’s how to secure yours before they’re gone.
    — Lauren Thomann, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Jan. 2025
  • To make sure that hard candies stay hard, sprinkle them with finely ground sugar and store in an airtight jar.
    — Cheryl V. Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 30 July 2024
  • Children aged 4 and older can suck on throat or cough lozenges, sugar-free hard candies, or even frozen berries.
    — Jeannette Moninger, Parents, 11 June 2024
  • Before freeing her, firefighters were able to toss her hard candy to help keep her blood sugar up.
    — Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 29 May 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • Both sides of the family had hard candy luck during the pandemic.
    — Kevin Fisher-Paulson, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Mar. 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
  • 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
  • Based on a taste test, grandma liked to have some butterscotch hard candies in her purse and maybe some toffee hard candy, too.
    — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 21 May 2024
  • The flavor is smooth, with ripe strawberries, marshmallow, peach tea, pine, and red hard candy.
    — oregonlive, 27 Jan. 2023
  • Babies and toddlers should not be eating hard candies or other small food items like popcorn or pumpkin seeds.
    — Tribune News Service, Orange County Register, 11 Oct. 2024
  • For example, sucking on ginger hard candy may help, as can over-the-counter nausea remedies.
    — Mara Santilli, SELF, 1 July 2024
  • Keep reading for three ways to repurpose your extra chocolates, gummies and hard candies.
    — Cody Godwin, USA Today, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Sweet and creamy with a touch of salt, these hard candies are an elevated version of a timeless confection.
    — Michele Laufik, Martha Stewart, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Instead, opt for mild herbal teas, such as ginger or chamomile tea, and other hard candies that don't include spearmint or peppermint oil.
    — Chelsea Rae Bourgeois, Rdn, Ld, Health, 2 Feb. 2025
  • 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

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