"Try this delicious confection, sir, spun sugar touched with the juice of rare fruits!"

It doesn't seem out of place because of the whiteness of the stonework, so brilliant in the sun it could be spun sugar.

Her smile was spun sugar.

Still strong, he thought, still strong, and he released the sweep-arm to go back to spinning sugar into floss.

"It's not that I don't like to spin sugar," she says.

The dancer's movements were designed to evoke the airy strands of spinning sugar, becoming clouds of cotton candy.

The plot is spun sugar, but the book's substantial themes range from politics, race and class to modern art and the existence of God.

She removed the pitcher from the china tea set, handling it as if it were spun sugar, and walked out.

It may sound glib, consumerist, even a touch Marie Antoinette, but let other people peel grapes and spin sugar.

He's as delicate as spun sugar, though, having visited the DL with shoulder, hip and knee issues in recent seasons.