jelly

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Recent Examples of jelly From here, the longest run in the region is a leg-jellying 15 kilometer, 2,000-meter descent back down to Gaislachkogl. CNN, 26 Oct. 2017 And according to TMZ, Miller will be noshing this first week on jellied toast for breakfast, hamburgers and fruit for lunch, sandwiches and wraps for dinner, and weekend meals of sloppy Joes and tacos. Diana Pearl, PEOPLE.com, 12 July 2017 Meanwhile their neighbors engaged in a range of menial tasks, including gluing together matchbooks by hand and selling vintage snacks (jellied eel, anyone?) from street carts. Meredith Blake, latimes.com, 15 May 2017 Or millions, all at once, literally jellying up the works. Evan Ackerman, IEEE Spectrum, 1 Oct. 2013 See All Example Sentences for jelly
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  • In the same way Everton remain a complicated work in progress on the pitch — still learning to gel nine new signings in a squad that boasted the lowest budget in the WSL last season — the Goodison project remains a work in progress, a symbol of an exciting but ultimately unknown future.
    Megan Feringa, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The top half of her hair was then teased and gelled in a pompadour leaning on the left side of her head.
    Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 12 Sep. 2025
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  • Prosecutors accused Read of backing up into O’Keefe, her boyfriend of two years, with her SUV, leaving him to freeze and die on the front yard of a Canton home where the pair was supposed to continue a night out after the bars closed that cold, snowy early January morning.
    Lance Reynolds, Boston Herald, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Using an ice chamber, the team froze mixtures of water, carbon dioxide, methane and ammonia to a bone-chilling –420 degrees Fahrenheit (-253 degrees Celsius), mimicking frigid conditions near the moon's surface.
    Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 12 Sep. 2025

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“Jelly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jelly. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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