How to Use confection in a Sentence

confection

noun
  • Rose Street’s confection counter in the market remains open.
    Jess Fleming, Twin Cities, 14 Aug. 2019
  • What makes Blinkie’s so miraculous is not the unique artistry of its sugary confections.
    The Economist, 26 July 2019
  • The flowers are large but more delicate in their architecture, though the stamen is a confection of pollen-bearing needles.
    Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2019
  • This is where the Michael Recchuiti creates confections and experiments with new flavors.
    Jessica Yadegaran, The Mercury News, 20 July 2019
  • Fast forward to 2008, and the aplets and cotlets partisans filed a bill of their own to make their preferred candy the official state confection.
    Dan Sweeney, sun-sentinel.com, 2 Aug. 2019
  • But the restaurant quickly moved from being a controversial confection atop a billion-dollar fiasco to being a beloved icon on top of the world’s most famous skyline.
    Tom Roston, Time, 9 Sep. 2019
  • Another popular peanut butter-and-chocolate confection has gone the other direction.
    Amy Schwabe, Journal Sentinel, 4 Oct. 2024
  • There is one-percenter camaraderie in Mrs. Trump’s pale green confection that nods ever so slightly to the national colors of Australia, which are green and gold.
    Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2019
  • And so out came the confections in many petal shades and shapes.
    Blue Carreon, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2024
  • Two weeks later, the city was crazy over the confection.
    Elise Taylor, Vogue, 17 Sep. 2021
  • Fans seemed to agree with Hudson and gushed over the dreamy confection in the comments.
    Charmaine Patterson, Peoplemag, 30 Mar. 2023
  • First, there’s a sourness at the heart of Beane’s confection.
    Helen Shaw, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2021
  • As for Lively's frothy confection of a gown, there's a lot to love.
    Jennifer Chan, PEOPLE.com, 24 Aug. 2021
  • Dan Levy took the party’s theme to the extreme in a blue confection from Loewe.
    Leanne Italie, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Sep. 2021
  • Dan Levy took the party's theme to the extreme in a blue confection from Loewe.
    Leanne Italie, Chron, 14 Sep. 2021
  • The kids are excited to try the new confection, but all the local stores are sold out.
    Chris Norris, SPIN, 13 Aug. 2022
  • The pits in the cherries add a subtle almond flavor to the confection when baked.
    Pam Lolley, Southern Living, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Pink marbled puffs with hints of cool herbal mint held the dark chocolate hearts of the sweet meringue confections.
    Louisa Chu, chicagotribune.com, 4 Dec. 2019
  • The confection, made of corn mousse, crema, cake and cookie, is designed to look like corn on the cob.
    Joyce Koh, Washington Post, 20 June 2023
  • There was a bowl of the vile confection on his countertop.
    Jiayang Fan, The New Yorker, 10 May 2021
  • The mansion at 991 Fifth Avenue is a confection of its era.
    Dan Barry, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2021
  • It’s the perfect confection for those among us who simply don’t want to choose just one dessert.
    Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 9 Nov. 2021
  • Be sure to stop by the iconic Cafe du Monde for their signature take on the sweet and fluffy fried confection.
    Karla Pope, Good Housekeeping, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Skip the basic box of chocolates this year and go for a more dazzling confection.
    Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Ditch the white wedding gown in favor of a soft pink or a baby blue confection.
    Marykate Boylan, Town & Country, 7 June 2022
  • And what’s Rudolph’s stuffing inside her spin on the confection?
    Rob Ledonne, Rolling Stone, 13 Feb. 2023
  • To his surprise, the confection cooled faster than his classmates’ had.
    Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Aug. 2020
  • At times, the episode felt like an all too indulgent confection that left my teeth aching.
    Manuel Betancourt, Vulture, 23 May 2021
  • The girls’ favorite was a confection called Spiramisu, made with chai tea and mascarpone, topped with a Ladyfinger biscuit.
    Jeanne O'Brien Coffey, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Nearly 20 years after heating up our eardrums with her debut album, Paris, Hilton has returned with Infinite Icon, a dance-pop confection to remind listeners of her pop-star bona fides.
    Devon Ivie, Vulture, 20 Sep. 2024

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