noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
jelly baby
jelly bean
jelly roll
petroleum jelly
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
royal
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He added pumpkin-seed oil, ginseng, royal jelly and a herbal complex to boost his libido.
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She was eating the royal jelly .
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Below: royal jelly - myth or medicine?
■ NOUN
bean
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Munching blue and white jelly beans we all confessed the holidays had done us in.
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Stark Nude had been an angelic sprite of a girl who in my mind will for ever be 6 and eating jelly beans .
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A consultant had urged the executives to view Texaco as a jar of different-colored jelly beans , each one unique and valuable.
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He often ran errands for Fong in return for jelly beans or small cubes of greasy homemade soap.
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Getting his green jelly bean fix, he thought.
petroleum
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Take any prescribed drugs with your breakfast and apply the plasters, petroleum jelly etc to help you on your way.
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Have you rubbed on petroleum jelly or applied any necessary plasters?
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A little oil or petroleum jelly on the thread will help.
■ VERB
eat
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I did eat jelly with chopsticks - as I said!
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Stark Nude had been an angelic sprite of a girl who in my mind will for ever be 6 and eating jelly beans.
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They eat jelly , but the word most often used is Jello, which is a trade name and much protected.
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She was eating the royal jelly .
feel
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Cook it a little longer until you feel the jelly has set; it should be thick and fairly cohesive.
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My legs, by now, feel like jelly .
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She stood up, instructed her legs to stop feeling like jelly , and set off after the machine.
make
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Rhubarb is perfect with rich meats and makes superb jams, jellies , puddings and pies.
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A sauce is then made of currant jelly , Worcestershire and hot sauces, and the duck essence from the press.
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Use a pint of stewed apple instead of water when making apricot jelly .
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Leave to cool. Make up the jelly according to the instructions.
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They can then be eaten with sugar and cream or used for making medlar jelly , which is delicious with game.
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Your fingers look as if they're made of jelly . where's the precision gone?
turn
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I do feel as if my hands have turned to jelly .
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Eyes that turned her insides to jelly , scrambled her mind, made her feel dumb and stupid and childish.
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But, though she knew that, she couldn't help it, her insides had turned to jelly .
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How can we hope to face him without turning to jelly at the thought of what he wants to do to us?
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Legs turn to jelly at the thought of scaling those awful precipices; mine do, anyway.
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With legs slowly turning to jelly , I skied down hard, icy snow, followed by spring snow, then slush.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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petroleum jelly
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The frogs' eggs are in a protective jelly .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Burning lumps of phosphorus jelly were scattered amongst the containers, forming a foreground that was blinding.
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Denver dipped a bit of bread into the jelly .
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He once paid his sister $ 300 to make him a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
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Instead, a trap baited with jelly and syrup was rigged close to the fresher circumference of tracks.
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The jelly was sweet and the ants ate it.