Sentence examples for taffy for from inspiring English sources

Dolle's, the town's source of saltwater taffy for 85 years, stayed open longer than any other oceanfront shop.

Candy, for example, dominates the "Happy Brush Day" episode, in which Ziggy wants only taffy for his birthday.

"The same family station wagon he used to haul saltwater taffy for his father by day was packed with audio gear at night as he moved from club to club, perfecting his recording technique," said Bebe Emerman.

"When they get here, they buy a hot dog at Nathan's and dessert from Philip's," said Mr. Dorman's partner, Peggy Cohn, 54, who started out bagging saltwater taffy for him when she was 15.

For dialect fiends: The awesome $730 multimedia "Atlas of North American English," by William Labov, et al. THOSE LESS-TAN ANGLOPHONES As a man's name used to denote an ethnic group, "Guido," according to the linguist Dominic Watt, can be compared with " 'Paddy' for Irish people, 'Taffy' for Welshmen, 'Geordie' for people from Newcastle".

For dessert head up the city's main commercial thoroughfare, Dolliver Street (California Route 1) to Tomasko Taffy for a scoop of "Motor Oil," a delectably sludgy dark chocolate and Kahlua ice cream, created by the local purveyor, Doc Burnstein ($2.75 a scoop).

Millepied's piece, "Double Aria," to music by Daniel Ott, was a taffy pull for two of the company's handsomest, most long-limbed dancers, Maria Kowroski and Ask la Cour.

Saltwater beer taffy is $10.50 for eight ounces.

Back at Bally's, I learned there was no 7 p.m. bus, and headed to the Tropicana to gnaw on leftover saltwater taffy and wait for the 8 o'clock, feeling bloated but happy that my spending might have contributed just a tiny bit to the recovery of the city.

According to the OED the word 'Taffy', a nickname for a Welshman, has its roots in the pronunciation of Dafydd, it says.

Back in dock, we bought takeaway clam chowder plus saltwater taffy – chewy coastal candy – for the car.