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cotton candy

noun as in candy made of spun sugar threads

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So it might come as a surprise then, that what Americans know today as cotton candy was indeed created by a dentist.

I’m pretty confident that if you ask any modern dentist today, they’d tell you that cotton candy isn’t all that great for your teeth.

In the distance, the Virginia mainland stayed low to the ground, a dark green strip underlining a pale lapis blue sky, empty except for a few shreds of cotton candy clouds.

Maybe not always the cotton candy ones, but stories that need to be told that maybe haven’t been heard.

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The Capital Weather Gang has been retweeting photos of the pink and purple cotton candy sunrise Wednesday morning.

There was even a cotton candy machine that children gather around.

By then, spectators were heading for the cotton-candy stand, applauding the ride.

Sometimes it's cotton-candy-content, but sometimes it's real meat.

Reading it is the literary equivalent of having cotton candy turn to ashes in your mouth.

Chocolate melts, cotton candy disintegrates, graham-cracker walls separate, and gingerbread roofs eventually cave in.

I feel a funny feeling in my stomach, like maybe it is full of supersuds or something, and my mouth is dry like cotton candy.

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On this page you'll find 4 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to cotton candy, such as: candy floss, fairy floss, spun sugar, and sugar cotton wool.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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