spun sugar

Example Sentences

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There were still clouds, but so wispy they had an iridescent sheen like spun sugar.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 2, 2024

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

Sassur gave us a few coins to buy a cone of spun sugar.

From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan