adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
egg
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Held an egg-rolling competition, using hard-boiled eggs ?
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A practical nurse brought old red wine, a silver tray of smoked salmon, crumbled hard-boiled egg , capers and lemon.
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There were bowls of coleslaw and potato salad laced with green peas, buttered garlic rolls and hard-boiled eggs .
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Stuffed hard-boiled eggs , most often called deviled eggs, can be spicy, plain or very exotic.
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For example, there is the hard-boiled egg diet where four to six eggs are eaten each day.
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He arrived at the picnic when even the last hard-boiled egg had been consumed.
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Halve six hard-boiled eggs and lay 3 on each plate.
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Some recipes include hard-boiled eggs and spinach, but this version is simpler and more elegant.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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hard-boiled detective novels
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a hard-boiled businesswoman
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A practical nurse brought old red wine, a silver tray of smoked salmon, crumbled hard-boiled egg, capers and lemon.
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Blanche told him what Spittals had said and he looked at her with his brown, hard-boiled eyes.
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For example, there is the hard-boiled egg diet where four to six eggs are eaten each day.
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Halve six hard-boiled eggs and lay 3 on each plate.
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He arrived at the picnic when even the last hard-boiled egg had been consumed.
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Since then, Johnson has established himself as a novelist with the large, messy talent of a hard-boiled poet.
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Stuffed hard-boiled eggs, most often called deviled eggs, can be spicy, plain or very exotic.
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There were bowls of coleslaw and potato salad laced with green peas, buttered garlic rolls and hard-boiled eggs.