sugar cubes

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These three-family clapboard sugar cubes, thrown up by the tens of thousands around the turn of the 20th century across all New England’s cities, are the backbone of Greater Boston’s working-class housing stock.

From Slate • Sep. 9, 2025

Deadly jellyfish, tiny and iridescent, like sugar cubes.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 20, 2023

The main trunk’s glacier surface “is so messed up by crevasses it looks like a set of sugar cubes almost. There’s no place to land a plane,” NSF’s Cutler said.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 15, 2023

Pinkie fingers out; mom's vintage Royal Albert tea set filled and set; lemon slices, cream, and sugar cubes arranged; the girls practiced their manners while sipping tea and eating what my mother called "tea cakes."

From Salon • Oct. 15, 2022

Think how many cubic centimeters there are in the world outside your window–how many sugar cubes it would take to fill that view.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson