How to Use confectionery in a Sentence

confectionery

noun
  • Already stressed about finances after a rent increase, Tina loses her job managing payroll at a confectionery company.
    Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2024
  • Grab a sweet treat at the popular confectionery, La Kings, and then hit the shops.
    Jennifer Miko, Chron, 17 May 2021
  • Was there time for a fast run for an ice cream or snowball before the corner confectionery store closed for the night?
    Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 14 July 2018
  • Your largest brand, Béquet Caramel, is a gourmet confectionery line.
    Dave Knox, Forbes, 20 May 2021
  • To infect it with the confectionery trappings of ordinary life is to spoil the day’s purpose.
    Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2017
  • Now, the confectionery whizzes at Mars-Wrigley are introducing a new bar to add to the Milky Way family of treats.
    Perri Ormont Blumberg, Southern Living, 19 Apr. 2018
  • The confectionery works, which call for the bakers to draw from the concept of fear, will be judged by Snoop and Martha alongside food content creator Alvin Zhou.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2021
  • The walkable confectionery opened to the public Nov. 26 ahead of Art Basel week and continues through Jan. 26.
    Phillip Valys, sun-sentinel.com, 26 Nov. 2019
  • These are not finicky, French-style confectioneries, though.
    Mark Ellwood, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Apr. 2017
  • Glycyrrhiza glabra is a species native to Eurasia and North Africa from which most confectionery licorice is produced.
    Bill Sullivan, Discover Magazine, 30 Mar. 2024
  • Google’s Android, true to its confectionery naming scheme, is distributed more in slices than as a whole.
    Vlad Savov, The Verge, 11 May 2018
  • Potato crisps are regarded as confectionery and are so are taxed at 20%, while tortilla chips are not.
    The Week Uk, theweek, 24 Apr. 2024
  • Hideo Kawamoto is president of Juchheim Group, one of the oldest confectionery brands in Japan.
    Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN, 5 Dec. 2021
  • Because the thrills might trigger hunger pangs, the area will also welcome a restaurant, ice cream parlor, and confectionery kitchen.
    Arthur Levine, USA TODAY, 4 Jan. 2020
  • Valerie in Glendale has opened — a sprawling 5,000-square-foot bakery, events space and confectionery.
    Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Here is art that turns confectionery into both rarefaction and panache.
    Alastair MacAulay, New York Times, 19 May 2017
  • The influx of spending in Canada’s confectionery sector doesn’t mean suppliers are throwing in the towel in the U.S. just yet.
    Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 11 June 2024
  • In the first big divestment by the Swiss foods group under its new boss, Nestlé sold its confectionery business in America to Ferrero for $2.8bn.
    The Economist, 18 Jan. 2018
  • Products that are consumed outside the house, like bottled water and confectionery, sold well.
    Carol Ryan, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2022
  • The cafe and confectionery shop usually has 36 tables inside and 20 outside in warmer weather, said Rothe.
    Nadine Schmidt and Jack Guy, CNN, 15 May 2020
  • His confectionery still lifes with their cheerful disposition seemed to him a misstep, at first.
    Mary Rourke, Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2021
  • And so funny and wry too, often bringing a carrier bag full of Quality Street (a brand of British confectionery) for the crew – which, frankly, all actors should do...
    Clark Collis, EW.com, 18 Sep. 2020
  • Schneider responded by off-loading the U.S. confectionery and ice cream businesses as well as the skin-care subsidiary.
    Corinne Gretler, Fortune, 7 Nov. 2020
  • This also may come wrapped in cellophane, largely to keep it from sticking to other confectionery.
    Gwendolyn Wu, Chron, 18 Jan. 2023
  • All types of stores, from confectionery and cosmetic stores to Apple Stores and luxury boutiques, offer the bags, which can range from $10 to hundreds of dollars.
    NBC News, 27 Dec. 2017
  • What also brings people back is candy, and sweet-toothers of a certain age will swoon before racks of vintage confectioneries.
    Rand Richards Cooper, courant.com, 18 Oct. 2019
  • The confectionery coating is then poured into a single mold or multiple molds, depending on the design of the piñata.
    Dallas News, 27 Apr. 2020
  • Nestle could use the same process to make milk or white chocolate in the future, Alexander von Maillot, head of Nestle’s confectionery business, said in a phone interview.
    Corinne Gretler, Fortune, 16 July 2019
  • The Danish confectionery Lakrids by Bulow has brought back their Advent calendar filled with 24 days of licorice covered in chocolate.
    Leanne Italie, Chicago Tribune, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Owners are searching for new ownership to update and run the aging confectionery.
    Phillip Valys, sun-sentinel.com, 1 Apr. 2021

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