spun sugar
Example Sentences
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But look closer, and you might marvel that these floral arrangements, as spindly as spun sugar, are fashioned from glass.
From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2023
It's a spectacular tableside experience, complete with spun sugar, smoke and other intricate details that leave you mesmerized.
From Salon • Apr. 22, 2022
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
Duchowny delivers the most spectacular turn as Polly, whose delectable spun sugar appearance conceals steeliness forged in the mean streets.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2015
She had made a vanilla cream cake with custard and spun sugar.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
