How to Use hard-boiled in a Sentence
hard-boiled
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For lunch or dinner, top a salad with scrambled or hard-boiled eggs.
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Amanda MacMillan,
Health,
9 Sep. 2025
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It can be poached, scrambled, scotched, roasted, hard-boiled, devilled, pickled, and soft-boiled, all by itself.
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Encyclopedia Britannica,
2 Apr. 2026
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Eggs, whether as mayonnaise or hard-boiled additions to a potato salad, are one factor.
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Anne Ewbank,
Sacbee.com,
2 July 2026
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The lenses of deep-sea fish are also especially susceptible to clouding, in the same way that egg whites go from clear to opaque when hard-boiled.
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Literary Hub,
25 Sep. 2025
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Boiled Placing eggs in boiling water with the shells on is another healthy cooking method that can be used until the yolk is runny (soft-boiled) or fully cooked (hard-boiled).
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Cristina Mutchler,
Verywell Health,
29 Jan. 2026
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