cream puff
Example Sentences
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The final scene, in which Titus enters dressed as a chef, a cream puff of a toque jauntily placed on his head—he’s baked those unpalatable pies—retains its deranged tone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026
Their cream puff schedule generated absolutely no preseason buzz.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2022
And from there you can get a cream puff and then you just make enough cream puffs to glue them all together.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2022
“All my life I’m this cream puff, and next thing I know everyone sees me as some kind of gangster,” he told The New York Times for a 2017 article.
From New York Times ● Sep. 7, 2021
In my memory of this story’s telling—in our kitchen in Isfahan—the man finished his tale and popped another cream puff into his mouth.
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
