confection
Example Sentences
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Each candy embodies the joy of indulging in sugary confections.
From Salon
He took a selfie with the cake, flashing bright blue teeth, right before Perkins cut into her intergalactic confection, the center dense with cookies and cream.
From Los Angeles Times
“Sèvres Extraordinaire!” approaches its subject—pioneering, astonishing ceramic confections that are neither purely functional nor purely decorative but sui generis art, or “sculpture”—in the broadest sense.
The band’s haunting tribute to the Carpenters, “Downey CA,” appeared on 2000’s “Sound of Water” — an icy, melancholy confection, possibly the most fully realized album of its career.
From Los Angeles Times
In recent years, the confection has been regarded as the symbol of affection with stores and major retailers selling them by the box.
From Salon
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