Example sentences for: confection

How can you use “confection” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • A building called the Catademnon (pungent gust of ancient Greek syllables!) is certainly not merely a confection, reminding us as it does of condemn, Agamenmon, and Parthenon, all of which relate directly to Vance's hero Emphyrio and his tragic fate.

  • VERBATIM ran an article, “Politically Correct Nomenclature, or, How to Win at Trivial Pursuit and Lose Friends” [XVIII, 4], by Marc A. Schindler, that delved into the subject, particularly with regard to the use of Inuit for Eskimo, though I note that the trade name, Eskimo Pie, has not been changed to Inuit Pie; also, it seems unlikely that the French ice cream confection, Esquimau Gervais, has been hailed into court.

  • As I recall, the gedunk was a confection devised either by Harold Teen or his diminutive sidekick, Shadow Smart.

  • It is unlikely to fail to play upon the suspicions of such a one that the composition of his most highly esteemed should be that most lately converted into a wan cinematic confection of fretsome abbreviation.

  • This is an interesting one: the term in AE is oreo , after the tradename of a dark double chocolate cookie with white cream between, a confection not encountered (by me) in Britain.


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