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
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
Chenoweth is all spun sugar and sunshine, an approach she’s perfected over a long career.
From Salon • Jul. 15, 2018
Her hair collected fine as spun sugar in the corners of the floor.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2016
A barn was suddenly made of gingerbread and spun sugar.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
