rock candy
sugar in large, hard, cohering crystals.
Origin of rock candy
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How to use rock candy in a sentence
Today, the ease of accessing data over the Internet is the big rock candy mountain of “oppo” research.
Clinton and Christie: Let The Mud-Slinging Start | Eleanor Clift | January 22, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBeneath the croquembouche and rock candy tiaras, these are real women.
If I caught cold from going bareheaded, so much the better; mother would give me rock candy for my cough.
The Promised Land | Mary AntinThe water evaporates, and the tiny crystals grow, one joining to another as they do in rock candy.
Diggers in the Earth | Eva March TappanThey gave us crystalized sugar, resembling rock candy, for sweetening purposes, but themselves drank tea without sugar or milk.
Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life | Thomas Wallace Knox
After giving me sweetened lime juice and a piece of rock candy, he entered his patio and assumed the lotus posture.
Autobiography of a YOGI | Paramhansa YoganandaImitation baskets of rock candy tied with bows of candy ribbons holding preserved citron, ginger and nuts glacé.
Dinners and Luncheons | Paul Pierce
British Dictionary definitions for rock candy
US and Canadian a hard candy, typically a long brightly-coloured peppermint-flavoured stick, sold esp in holiday resorts: Also called (in Britain and certain other countries): rock
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