hard-boiled
Example Sentences
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Clutton-Brock has joked that his most important discovery was meerkats’ fondness for hard-boiled egg.
From Slate • May 10, 2026
As his deceit becomes apparent, the music shifts from crisp hip-hop beats to a hard-boiled film noir crescendo.
From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026
Crime fiction became more realistic, an approach presaged by Dashiell Hammett and other hard-boiled American writers in the 1920s.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026
For my daughter’s sake, I never left our hotel or Airbnb without a full water bottle and a hard-boiled egg or two from the breakfast buffet.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2025
It was easy for me to imagine myself hunched over a keyboard, pounding out reams of deathless, hard-boiled prose.
From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers
