pastry
Example Sentences
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She spoke of pastry shops selling sweets so enticing that barely any survived the trip home.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026
Amodei, whose family is Italian, loves maritozzi so much that her husband once gave her a stuffed toy in the shape of the pastry as a gift.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 9, 2026
Later, the counter began to crowd with flaky croissants, sticky pastry, brioches with amber sheen.
From Salon • Feb. 5, 2026
Springboarding off a global craze for "Dubai chocolate" -- a pistachio-filled chocolate bar layered with fine shredded pastry known as kadaif -- and fuelled by K-pop endorsements, "Dujjonku" have become a phenomenon in South Korea.
From Barron's • Jan. 20, 2026
Now he was learning gourmet cooking from French chefs and pastry cooks in a Parisian hotel.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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