confection

Example Sentences

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His friends loved his portmanteaued frozen confection, which he patented in 1924.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

It’s a bright and shiny synthpop confection with a steady 4/4 house beat.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 30, 2025

Almost everything we associate him with—the North Pole, the sled, the reindeer—is a 19th-century confection laid on top of a much older and sterner figure.

From Slate • Dec. 15, 2024

So products with less fat need to be called something else – frozen dessert, iced confection, even gelato.

From Salon • Dec. 2, 2024

She was breaking her fast on a bowl of cold shrimp- and-persimmon soup when Ini brought her a Qartheen gown, an airy confection of ivory samite patterned with seed pearls.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin