cotton candy

noun

Updated on: 17 Apr 2018

Definition of cotton candy

1 : a candy made of spun sugar

2 : something attractive but insubstantial

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Examples of cotton candy in a Sentence

the beauty pageant is a variety of cotton candy that the public has clearly started to grow tired of

Recent Examples of cotton candy from the Web

Analysts point out that flavors like tutti frutti, cotton candy and sour gummy worms are likely to attract some younger users to e-cigarettes.

— roni selig, davide cannaviccio and charlotte hawks, CNN, "Vaping now an epidemic among US high schoolers," 6 Apr. 2018
Not everybody can handle making the cotton candy and shaping the balloon animals.

— catherine o’neill, Bon Appetit, "Your April Horoscope, Now with 100% More Pizza," 1 Apr. 2018
Pieces of lumber and bent metal covered the ground along with insulation that looked like yellow cotton candy.

— Fox News, "Spring nor'easter could bring upwards of 18 inches of snow, hampering Wednesday commute," 20 Mar. 2018
Pieces of lumber and bent metal covered the ground along with insulation that looked like yellow cotton candy.

— brynn anderson and jay reeves, USA TODAY, "Severe weather spawns tornadoes across the South, rips off roofs in Alabama," 20 Mar. 2018
Patrick, who took me to dinner by the beach and bought me cotton candy at Fenway Park.

— meredith goldstein, BostonGlobe.com, "How Meredith Goldstein became an advice columnist when her own love life was falling apart," 22 Mar. 2018
Food available for sale will include veggie burgers, hot dogs, barbecue chicken sandwiches, chips, drinks, popcorn and cotton candy.

— emily sorensen, Pomerado News, "Pets in the Park is Saturday," 22 Mar. 2018
The soft serve in those machines can be served into a waffle cone that has cotton candy spun on to it.

— polly campbell, Cincinnati.com, "The food at Reds games: Hometown flavors new on menu at Great American Ball Park," 21 Mar. 2018
In order for event-goers to try tapping their maples at home, instructions and equipment will be for sale — along with maple-candy treats and made-on-site maple-sugar cotton candy.

— bob dohr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "Wehr Nature Center set to host 42nd annual Maple Sugar Days," 19 Mar. 2018

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