cream puff
Example Sentences
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The final scene, in which Titus enters dressed as a chef, a cream puff of a toque jauntily placed on his head—he’s baked those unpalatable pies—retains its deranged tone.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026
Gluck’s opera “Orfeo ed Euridice” is a funny thing: a timeless Greek myth of separation and loss, twisted into a Viennese cream puff.
From New York Times • May 24, 2024
Their cream puff schedule generated absolutely no preseason buzz.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 10, 2022
And from there you can get a cream puff and then you just make enough cream puffs to glue them all together.
From Salon • Aug. 4, 2022
They howled and roared and slobbered toward Mr. Vendleri, Sycorax with a decaying cream puff still in her yellow jaws.
From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt
