jawbreaker

Example Sentences

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“I always describe the bags as being like beautiful white jawbreakers with saccharine colors all over them,” says Liana Satenstein, 35, a writer who focuses on the vintage market.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 14, 2025

Under the World’s Biggest Candy Necklace and near the sign reading “Nice People Stop Here,” the man who was not nice stopped, too, and reached into a jar of jawbreakers.

From New York Times • Dec. 31, 2011

She watches the boy slide the quarter into the notch and turn the stiff handle and the jawbreakers slump against each other behind the glass.

From The Guardian • Aug. 6, 2010

At almost every sizable U.S. airport, Litton antennas help control flights; in universities, Litton digital desk computers solve calculus jawbreakers.

From Time Magazine Archive

I fingered striped suspenders and stiff new overalls, peeked in the pickle barrel, and examined jars of peppermint sticks and jawbreakers.

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney