sugarplum
Example Sentences
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The residents, including artist David Hockney, told Kensington and Chelsea borough council that Hamilton would be "destroying nature" if he cut down a sugarplum tree outside his home.
From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2022
Don’t worry, I’m not here to junk-shame anyone; viewers are entitled to enjoy their Hallmark and Lifetime movies in peace, just as they are their sugarplum sweets.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 17, 2021
But the Senate is the sugarplum fairy dancing in Democrats’ heads.
From Fox News ● Aug. 5, 2020
William Styron, reviewing it in The New York Review of Books, called it a “droll little sugarplum of a tale.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 16, 2018
I’d flex and leap, and bow and sweep; a sugarplum, a swan, a maiden, a doll.
From "Wintergirls" by Laurie Halse Anderson
