spun sugar
Example Sentences
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Stars Hollow, like the family relationship around which it revolves, is a TV fantasy built on a foundation of spun sugar.
From Salon • Feb. 25, 2021
The menu does not mention these aren’t pork cracklins but fried chicken skin: six pieces, each the size of a Frito, but as flat and fragile as spun sugar.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 28, 2019
Whipple: While winding layers of spun sugar onto a cardboard holder, he realized that cotton candy was remarkably similar to TP, though slightly less digestible.
From Washington Post • Jan. 5, 2017
Only a few in the front row actually got to share in that moment, spun sugar dissolving upon their tongues.
From New York Times • Jul. 27, 2016
Sassur gave us a few coins to buy a cone of spun sugar.
From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan
