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- noun Plural form of
jawbreaker .
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Examples
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You will find no "jawbreakers" in Sackville, no attempts to adjust English words on a
A History of Elizabethan Literature George Saintsbury 1889
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Crunching on hard candies such as jawbreakers can also break a filling or crack a weakened tooth, she adds.
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The pineapple he dumps into a cereal bowl and then portions out into little balls the size of jawbreakers.
23rd and Surf Julie Innis 2011
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Portmanteau lines are those jawbreakers that contain so many phrases or clauses, you get lost in the middle.
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I dab with a sterile cloth at my eyes, which are round dark spheres, planets lacking anything to orbit, rootbeer jawbreakers rolling around in the gumball machine of a head attached to my narrow shoulders.
Anhedonia (excerpt) Laura Preble 2010
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They make cookies, candy (chocolates, jawbreakers, and gummy stars, to name a few), and cupcakes.
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One of those big jawbreakers that I always leave in there, he said.
TWILIGHT SAGA NEWS FOR OCTOBER 28TH | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews 2009
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They make cookies, candy (chocolates, jawbreakers, and gummy stars, to name a few), and cupcakes.
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One of those big jawbreakers that I always leave in there, he said.
TWILIGHT SAGA NEWS FOR OCTOBER 28TH | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews 2009
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But the assortment of styles and themes is like a gumball machine loaded with boldly hued jawbreakers: There's a lot to crunch on.
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