spun sugar

Example Sentences

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But look closer, and you might marvel that these floral arrangements, as spindly as spun sugar, are fashioned from glass.

From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2023

The menu does not mention these aren’t pork cracklins but fried chicken skin: six pieces, each the size of a Frito, but as flat and fragile as spun sugar.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 28, 2019

Chenoweth is all spun sugar and sunshine, an approach she’s perfected over a long career.

From Salon • Jul. 15, 2018

A Kangol hat made of spun sugar 55.

From Washington Post • Jun. 2, 2016

For the sweet, each guest was served a skull of spun sugar.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin