Cannoli is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Cannoli meaning
A tube of fried pastry, typical of Sicily, filled with ricotta or similar cream cheese, and flavorings, eaten as a dessert.
Using Cannoli
- The main meaning on this page is: A tube of fried pastry, typical of Sicily, filled with ricotta or similar cream cheese, and flavorings, eaten as a dessert.
- In the example corpus, cannoli often appears in combinations such as: cannoli and, cannoli from, of cannoli.
Context around Cannoli
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 8 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 17 statements, 1 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Cannoli
- In this selection, "cannoli" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, mini, sell, sicilian, brownies, shells and eclairs stand out and add context to how "cannoli" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a mini cannoli and a strawberry cannoli with a. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "cannoli" sits close to words such as abad, abovementioned and abr, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with cannoli
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Cannoli is also full flight. (5 words)
Free cannoli delite donut with purchase. (6 words)
The Cannolo Chocolate Egg takes its flavour cues from that of the cannoli. (13 words)
It wasn’t so much a thoughtfully coursed meal as an act of emotional blackmail: You couldn’t get up and go home when there were so many cutlets left and a tray of cannoli and biscotti to come. (39 words)
In addition to several different flavors of cheesecake served by the slice, The Cheesecake Lady will also sell cannoli, brownies, cookies, muffins and designer sugar cookies for special occasions, in addition to coffee and other beverages. (36 words)
Its roots are 20 miles inland, in Lawrence, Massachusetts, an old mill city bisected by the Merrimack River, where the Sicilian bakery Tripoli began baking cannoli and other pastries in the early 1920s. (33 words)
Want to hit up all the seafood and Italian hot spots or grab a cannoli at Bova’s at 2 a.m. without hunting down a parking spot? (28 words)
Steven Spielberg's daughter Destry Allyn is engaged to actor Genc Legrand: 'Holy cannoli, I'm engaged! (17 words)
Example sentences (19)
After a few years at the register, Mama Nunneri moved into the back kitchen and started making her cannoli from a 70-year-old recipe she’d rather die than give up.
In addition to several different flavors of cheesecake served by the slice, The Cheesecake Lady will also sell cannoli, brownies, cookies, muffins and designer sugar cookies for special occasions, in addition to coffee and other beverages.
I was torn between options once again, but Doug swooped on the Sicilian cannoli (£6), as well as an espresso (£2.40) which helped me out a bit.
Want to hit up all the seafood and Italian hot spots or grab a cannoli at Bova’s at 2 a.m. without hunting down a parking spot?
It’s also where I bought the mini-cannoli shells for 75 cents a pop.
It wasn’t so much a thoughtfully coursed meal as an act of emotional blackmail: You couldn’t get up and go home when there were so many cutlets left and a tray of cannoli and biscotti to come.
The Cannolo Chocolate Egg takes its flavour cues from that of the cannoli.
Cannoli is also full flight.
Other treats may be cannoli, eclairs, raspberry bars, cookies (plates and beautifully wrapped tiers are available) lemon bars, and brownies.
Steven Spielberg's daughter Destry Allyn is engaged to actor Genc Legrand: 'Holy cannoli, I'm engaged!
All come with a side Caesar salad or minestrone soup and a mini cannoli.
Despite the famous quote from —“Leave the gun; take the cannoli”—there are all too many versions of the bakery staple that I could take or leave.
Free cannoli delite donut with purchase.
Its roots are 20 miles inland, in Lawrence, Massachusetts, an old mill city bisected by the Merrimack River, where the Sicilian bakery Tripoli began baking cannoli and other pastries in the early 1920s.
Served from 5 to 7 p.m., the meal will feature pasta with meatballs or sausage, salad and cannoli from Chef Schmidt and the students at the Career Development Center.
The desserts – or dulces – consist of traditional Italian desserts like cannoli and panna cotta but the Maca D’Oro – a white chocolate mousse dipped in a candied apple glaze – stole the show.
A couple of cannoli - the pistachio one is good but it's the Nutella one on the left that's delicious.
Sure, you’re not going to channel Palermo when you're in north Phoenix crunching into a strawberry cannoli with a circus of toppings.
The Cannoli-Knish gang, meanwhile, all believe the Patriots are going to win.
Common combinations with cannoli
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- cannoli and 3×
- cannoli from 2×
- of cannoli 2×
- the cannoli 2×