Example Sentences

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There's a photograph of Cameron with Boris Johnson, London's patrician mayor, and other Bullingdon members in their toffy getup, taken a year before the Cliveden trip and widely reprinted in the British press last year.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mother," said Teola, changing the subject abruptly, "why can't we have a toffy pull.

From Tess of the Storm Country by White, Grace Miller

On six different occasions she offered him soap, telling him it was toffy, and each time he bit of it generously and without suspicion.

From The Parts Men Play by Baxter, Arthur Beverley

"It comes from eating too much toffy," said Georgina.

From Mr. Scarborough's Family by Trollope, Anthony

"I meant chocolates, or burnt almonds, or even everton toffy, if all things fail."

From Portia or By Passions Rocked by Duchess