How to Use ear candy in a Sentence

ear candy

noun
Definition of ear candynext
  • Or a shiny gold cuff that'll take anyone's ear candy up a notch?
    — Glamour, 31 Oct. 2019
  • The guitar solos are excellent, and the track sticks in your mind like a piece of ear candy.
    — Mark Richardson, WSJ, 29 Aug. 2022
  • The season’s It piece is meant to hang prettily off of one’s lobes, but Scott’s creations are far more than mere ear candy.
    — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 13 Mar. 2019
  • There are little ear hooks, ear candy, on those original records.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 16 Mar. 2022
  • The song is ear candy, and a certain kitsch factor is probably part of its enduring appeal.
    — Paul Grein, Billboard, 29 Sep. 2020
  • Earrings Meghan and Kate both kept their jewelry simple, but the Cartier ear candy was a little different for the two brides.
    — Megan Decker, Harper's BAZAAR, 19 May 2018
  • The track is a concentrated dose of ear candy, made of pastel synths that swirl with the richness and silkiness of milk chocolate, and bright background melodies that sparkle like sonic Pop Rocks.
    — Katie Bain, Billboard, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Built out of urgent piano stabs, laser synths, kick drum and a truly delectable melody -- layered underneath lyrics about meeting the man of your dreams in your actual dreams -- the song was pure ear candy.
    — Katie Bain, Billboard, 29 Sep. 2020
  • An amalgam of textures, tones and tempos, the 13-track opus delivers plenty of ear candy for guitar nerds to salivate over, but real heart — often a broken one — lies underneath its mazes of synth, stately piano and spaceship blips and beeps.
    — Janine Schaults, chicagotribune.com, 26 Feb. 2018
  • Then again, creating ear candy is Coldplay’s specialty.
    — George Varga, sandiegouniontribune.com, 4 Oct. 2017
  • Fortunately, Ripa’s reconstructive surgery allows her to still wear sparkly ear candy.
    — Maria Yagoda, PEOPLE.com, 11 Dec. 2019
  • Addressing issues like self-esteem, good relationships, sh--ty relationships, depression, self-love and other real life material with an accessible vulnerability, to many Scholler's work is less ear candy and more of a rally cry to just keep going.
    — Katie Bain, Billboard, 1 Oct. 2020

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