candyfloss
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Packed inside the Blean Bakery Box are cookies for £3.50 in an assortment of unusual flavours, and tubs of dunkable cookies with dips from candyfloss to brownie - all baked by Annabelle Cox.
From BBC • Nov. 8, 2025
“When we start to stifle debate, and negate opposing arguments, we end up with candyfloss, not hard brilliance.”
From Slate • Jun. 16, 2022
Winbolt promises that the "air of Weston is a fine tonic" but I'm already catching a waft of candyfloss, chips and burgers, with perhaps the faintest hint of… is that whelks?
From BBC • Aug. 3, 2018
Amused, the man, removing his cap to reveal a head of hair as soft as a candyfloss, finished the chorus.
From The Guardian • Sep. 6, 2015
Slightly cross-eyed, with shoulder-length white hair the texture of candyfloss, he wore a cap whose tassel dangled in front of his nose and robes of an eye-watering shade of egg-yolk yellow.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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