How to Use taffy in a Sentence

taffy

noun
  • Adam evoked the image of stretching taffy.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 18 June 2026
  • Treats such as popcorn and taffy as well as children’s items will be sold on-site.
    — Dan Kelly october 29, Kansas City Star, 29 Oct. 2025
  • One survivor was an almost two-ton taffy machine, which is still in use.
    — Chris Lindsley, Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2019
  • Because what adolescent doesn’t love the thrills and chills of a group taffy pull?
    — Chris Hewitt, Star Tribune, 30 July 2020
  • The taffy was brittle, and clerks behind the counter broke it to size with a hammer.
    — Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Sucked into the machine, my nipples looked like long, pink taffy, stretched and then milked.
    — Meaghan O'Connell, Longreads, 10 Apr. 2018
  • Instead of the leisurely, taffy churn from three nights ago, this lava was liquid.
    — Heidi Julavit, The New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2021
  • In my mouth, the kolodka turned ethereally gooey, like soft taffy.
    — Anton Troianovski, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2020
  • His father’s best year amounted to about 9,000 pounds of taffy.
    — Lauren Delgado, OrlandoSentinel.com, 23 May 2018
  • 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
  • The staff had piled a toy train high with Modjeskas and stuffed a sleigh with chocolate suckers and egg nog taffy.
    — Maggie Menderski, Louisville Courier Journal, 9 Dec. 2025
  • Black Jacks, a salt water taffy with a swirl of licorice in the center, were popular.
    — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Shops could bottle and sell this place’s trademark fog — alongside smoked salmon and saltwater taffy.
    — — Leah Sottile, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2017
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • It’s made using your grandparent's taffy puller for a nostalgic taste and texture.
    — Amber Love Bond, Forbes, 6 May 2022
  • Onstage, the group will stretch those elements out like dark psychedelic taffy.
    — Milwaukee, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 Aug. 2017
  • These folks have been sweetening lives here since the early 1950s, and the taffy recipe hasn't changed a whit.
    — Tracey Minkin, Southern Living, 12 July 2023
  • The setting had simply always been part of my life, pieces of it stretching into every corner of my mind like taffy.
    — Literary Hub, 7 May 2026
  • Glass walls add some privacy but allow natural light in, and drapey dupioni silk in taffy pink hides a desk on wheels.
    — Kathryn O’Shea-Evans, WSJ, 27 Dec. 2018
  • The store also has some more traditional candy and a large assortment of taffy.
    — Paige Moore, AZCentral.com, 19 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • As the two galaxies converged, each would pull the other apart like taffy, creating long tendrils of stars, gas and dust called tidal tails.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 22 May 2026
  • 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
  • Love that summer uniform…the tank-top jumpsuit s-t-r-e-t-c-h-e-d like taffy over the chocolate net, see-through, pectoralis major body shirt.
    — Gail Sheehy, Daily Intelligencer, 9 Sep. 2017

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