spun sugar

Example Sentences

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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

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

Only a few in the front row actually got to share in that moment, spun sugar dissolving upon their tongues.

From New York Times • Jul. 27, 2016

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

From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan