confection

Example Sentences

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In Philadelphia, it means something else entirely — a sweet, sugary confection that looks like a tiny potato but tastes like a coconut-cream dream.

From Salon • Mar. 17, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 30, 2025

In any other movie, the pop-punk confection of the Veronicas’ “Untouched” would be a perfect cue to establish its setting in middle-class suburban Australia, as light and lucky a place as ever was.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 18, 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

Our sons, tired out, were humped together asleep, the youngest clutching a sugary confection in one sticky fist.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya