rock candy
Example Sentences
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The tart fruit lingered on the palate like rock candy.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 15, 2021
X-ray crystallography saturates proteins in a salt bath solution until they form crystals akin to rock candy.
From National Geographic • Dec. 31, 2020
At first, I modeled in a schematic stem, so the spike looked a bit like a rock candy lollipop.
From Scientific American • Jun. 25, 2020
At the Candy Lady, a confectionery in Old Town, you can even buy a baggie of the blue and white rock candy the shop created for the first two seasons of the TV drama.
From Washington Post • Dec. 11, 2019
With a slam of her cleaver, she cracked rock candy into jagged pieces.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
