Thesaurus results for COTTON CANDIES

cotton candy

noun

as in eye candy

something attractive but lacking in substance the beauty pageant is a variety of cotton candy that the public has clearly started to grow tired of

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Recent Examples of cotton candy Give polka dots a Valentine’s Day-ready spin with a cotton candy color palette. —

Ariel Wodarcyk, InStyle, 6 Feb. 2026 Last month, as the sky faded to cotton candy pink, Colby spotted nearly a dozen sheep scaling the side of a mountain. —

Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2026 Metler said the unicorn cotton candy is the undefeated favorite. —

Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Jan. 2026 Auteur 2023 Griotte-Chambertin Grand Cru is ruby to the eye and has aromas of cherry, pomegranate, cotton candy, and violet. —

Mike Desimone, Robb Report, 11 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for cotton candy

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But in these images Uranus’s rings and clouds are mostly just eye candy, says Heidi Hammel, a JWST interdisciplinary scientist at the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, who was not involved with the work.

— Lee Billings, Scientific American, 24 Feb. 2026
Dane had initially agreed to appear in only one episode of the long-running ABC drama, but remained a fixture — and eye candy for fans — for more than 130 episodes until 2012.

— Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2026