How to Use hard candy in a Sentence
hard candy
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The amount of ginger in ginger chews and hard candies can vary.
—Lauren O'Connor, Ms, Health, 10 Feb. 2025
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Don't offer high-risk foods like grapes, popcorn, chunks of meat and cheese and hard candy.
—Sarah Schreiber, Good Housekeeping, 23 Nov. 2016
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Each sale could buy me three pieces of hard candy from the candywalla.
—Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 29 May 2018
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Water and hard candy will be available at the checkpoint both days.
—Christina Hyder, baltimoresun.com, 3 Dec. 2019
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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
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From gummies to hard candy to chocolate, Sugar has it all.
—Birmingham Magazine, AL.com, 6 Mar. 2018
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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
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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
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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
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For decades the candy eggs — as well as hard candies — were made in the Southwest Baltimore plant on Caton Avenue.
—Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 30 Mar. 2024
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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
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My parents tried every trick in the book, from tying them with floss to a doorknob and pulling them, red-faced, to having me chew hard candy.
—Sari Botton, Longreads, 2 Oct. 2017
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Ever wondered what those hard candies your grandmother kept in a bowl for years taste like?
—Scottie Andrew, CNN, 29 Feb. 2020
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Both sides of the family had hard candy luck during the pandemic.
—Kevin Fisher-Paulson, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Mar. 2022
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Presbyterians around the United States would send used clothes and small gifts such as cards, jacks and hard candy.
—Author: Charles Wohlforth, Alaska Dispatch News, 30 June 2017
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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
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He’s long been a connoisseur of hard candy during games, but only in the first, third, fifth, seventh and ninth innings.
—New York Times, 7 June 2022
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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
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Other fliers were seen being held down by hard candy on a local running trail.
—Anne Branigin, The Root, 15 Jan. 2018
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Soothing Treats Children aged four and older can suck on throat or cough lozenges, sugar-free hard candies, or even frozen berries.
—Jeannette Moninger, Parents, 23 June 2023
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Because of medicines giving me dry mouth, my dentist said eat sugar-free hard candies.
—Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 7 Dec. 2018
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The easiest way to take CBD oils for insomnia is in the form of an edible like gummies or hard candy.
—Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 22 July 2022
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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
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The flavor is smooth, with ripe strawberries, marshmallow, peach tea, pine, and red hard candy.
—oregonlive, 27 Jan. 2023
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Altoids Sours fans have felt the loss of the hard candies since their discontinuation 14 years ago.
—Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 11 Sep. 2024
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Eventually, hard candies were made from the plant and carried in many apothecaries and general stores.
—Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 30 Nov. 2025
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Keep reading for three ways to repurpose your extra chocolates, gummies and hard candies.
—Cody Godwin, USA Today, 4 Nov. 2025
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Fill sugar cookie cutouts with hard candies in the middle.
—Metro Creative Services, Boston Herald, 29 Oct. 2025
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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
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The hard candy came in a Progresso soup can.
—Susan Selasky, Freep.com, 2 Oct. 2025
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