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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 on the Web
Both shows are towers of cotton candy teased by a breeze of cheap melodrama.
—Tom Gliatto, People.com, 12 Oct. 2024
Sparky aromas of red cherries, cotton candy, blackberry juice and hay bales.
—Tom Mullen, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2024
Wave appeared in a final clip sitting down in the car while holding his half-eaten piece of cotton candy and shaking his head with a big smile.
—Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 22 Sep. 2024
These extremely low density cotton candy exoplanets—known as super-puffs—are a big puzzle for astronomers trying to figure out how planets form.
—Briley Lewis, Popular Science, 9 Oct. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1926, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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“Cotton candy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cotton%20candy. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.
Kids Definition
cotton candy
noun
: a candy made of spun sugar
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