sugar cubes
Example Sentences
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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
Bag fans agree that one of the top collectibles was produced by the now-defunct Finnaviation, an elegant design showing the profile of a blue reindeer spewing what looks like a pile of sugar cubes.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 1, 2022
I stay in the infirmary for as long as I can, and with the sugar cubes and food and rest from work, my body gradually grows stronger.
From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
