taffy
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adulation, blarney, butter, flannel [British], flattery, incense, overpraise, soft soap, sweet talk
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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, "Murphy Beds: The Old-School Space Saver Is Back in Style," 27 Dec. 2018 Myofascial release is a technique in which a practitioner slowly stretches your fascia, similar to stretching a piece of taffy. — Leslie Goldman, Woman's Day, "More Women Have Fibromyalgia Than Breast Cancer," 10 Sep. 2017 Several players are also doing last-second neck and back exercises because, according to Senior Bowl lore, that's how Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson managed to taffy-stretch himself above 5-10 at this event in 2012. — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, "Morning Line: Celebrating three years of Jillian The Magnificent and Ryan Mavriplis," 27 June 2018 Vendors also sell everything from cranberry cheese to cranberry sausage, cranberry candies, fudge and taffy, dried cranberries and cranberry jams. — Nancy Stohs, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "6 food festivals that offer a glimpse of Wisconsin specialties and local culture," 6 June 2018 The pageant is an extended advertisement not for taffy shops on the boardwalk, or now for a particular Beautiful Bathing Girl, but indeed for the opposite: for the Beautiful Bathing Girl, as a general idea. — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, "Miss America 2.0: The Inner Beauty Pageant?," 5 June 2018 His father’s best year amounted to about 9,000 pounds of taffy. — Lauren Delgado, OrlandoSentinel.com, "Zeno’s Boardwalk Sweet Shop celebrates 70 years - and National Taffy Day," 23 May 2018 The stuffed roll would be sold wrapped like a taffy in white parchment paper twisted at both ends. — Nik Sharma, San Francisco Chronicle, "A Brown Kitchen: Savory Lamb Swirl Buns," 16 Mar. 2018 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, "Would You Get A "Mommy Tuck" ?," 14 Mar. 2011These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'taffy.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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