spun sugar

Example Sentences

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Stars Hollow, like the family relationship around which it revolves, is a TV fantasy built on a foundation of spun sugar.

From Salon • Feb. 25, 2021

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

Only a few in the front row actually got to share in that moment, spun sugar dissolving upon their tongues.

From New York Times • Jul. 27, 2016

A Kangol hat made of spun sugar 55.

From Washington Post • Jun. 2, 2016

A barn was suddenly made of gingerbread and spun sugar.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill