confectionery

Example Sentences

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After a visit home, I returned to campus with a stockpile, like a confectionery smuggler crossing state lines with sugary contraband stuffed between sweatshirts in my suitcase.

From Salon • Mar. 17, 2026

Since joining the series, Leith has sampled scores of competitors’ signature bakes, judged technical baking challenges and marveled at numerous bakers’ memorable confectionery showstoppers.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 21, 2026

Ferragni's legal troubles related in part to her 2022 endorsement of a pandoro cake made by Italian confectionery company Balocco that purported to raise funds for children undergoing treatment at a Turin hospital.

From Barron's • Jan. 14, 2026

The steady rise in grocery prices from a recent low in April continued last month, with consumers hit by price increases for fresh vegetables, sugar and confectionery.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 21, 2025

I’ve always regarded the Pepper Imp as the king of the confectionery bag.

From "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" by J.K. Rowling