sugarplum
Example Sentences
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The residents, including artist David Hockney, told Kensington and Chelsea borough council that Hamilton would be "destroying nature" if he cut down a sugarplum tree outside his home.
From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2022
But the Senate is the sugarplum fairy dancing in Democrats’ heads.
From Fox News ● Aug. 5, 2020
Living when we do, we have decades of Christmas television to add to the trees and mistletoe and sugarplum fairy visions already gathered around the holiday — new traditions to extend, play with and pervert.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2016
The sugarplum queen decided in the middle of her solo that she was too tired to dance anymore, so she waved her fellow dancers onto the stage to take over.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 15, 2015
I’d flex and leap, and bow and sweep; a sugarplum, a swan, a maiden, a doll.
From "Wintergirls" by Laurie Halse Anderson
