Random word

Confection is an English word with synonyms like sweet or tack. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.

Rare word

Confection in a sentence

Confection meaning

  1. A food item prepared very sweet, frequently decorated in fine detail, and often preserved with sugar, such as a candy, sweetmeat, fruit preserve, pastry, or cake.
  2. The act or process of confecting; the process of making, compounding, or preparing something.
  3. The result of such a process; something made up or confected; a concoction.

Synonyms of Confection

sweet tack set up put together piece assemble comfit confect concoction treat kickshaw goody delicacy dainty tack together

Using Confection

  • The main meaning on this page is: A food item prepared very sweet, frequently decorated in fine detail, and often preserved with sugar, such as a candy, sweetmeat, fruit preserve, pastry, or cake. | The act or process of confecting; the process of making, compounding, or preparing something. | The result of such a process; something made up or confected; a concoction.
  • Useful related words include: sweet, tack, set up, put together.
  • In the example corpus, confection often appears in combinations such as: confection that, the confection, confection and.

Context around Confection

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 26.3 words
  • Position in the sentence: 1 start, 10 middle, 9 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Corpus analysis for Confection

  • In this selection, "confection" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, era, pudding, postmodern, clearly, studded and plus stand out and add context to how "confection" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include a spherical confection atop his and and curled confection. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "confection" sits close to words such as aaf, aalen and abrogated, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with confection

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

It lies in the whole outrageous, roaring, blistered and curled confection. (11 words)

Dark chocolate ganache tarts with honeycomb candy from Gross Confection Bar in Portland. (13 words)

Cookie salad, for the uninitiated, is a creamy pudding confection studded with cookies and fruit. (15 words)

There’s a nicely written moment at the end when widower Carl picks up a photo of his wife, Ellie, but it’s so out of step with the rest of this feather-light confection that it lands with a thud. (41 words)

The made-to-order beauties come with a chocolate ice cream that features White Rabbit candy (a milk-based nostalgic Chinese confection) plus a trove of mango popping pearls, chocolate Pop Rocks, and other toppings served in a wooden tea tower. (41 words)

The second entry, published in July, is called, you guessed it, Indie director Adam Reid’s gonzo graphic confection, The Adventures of Barry & Joe, which styles Obama and Biden as time-traveling superheroes, was released this past spring. (38 words)

Example sentences (20)

Based on's novel of the same namethis Regency-era confection clearly owes a debt to for its racially diverse cast and candy-colored costuming.

Cookie salad, for the uninitiated, is a creamy pudding confection studded with cookies and fruit.

Gender ideology is even harder to define than most terms because it refers to a protean postmodern confection.

The album’s title track was the sort of samba pop confection that Super Furry Animals might have produced in their more retro lounge moments.

There’s a nicely written moment at the end when widower Carl picks up a photo of his wife, Ellie, but it’s so out of step with the rest of this feather-light confection that it lands with a thud.

The server (who did not seem scared, for the record) brought the spiky confection to the table, doused it with liquor, set it alight, and waited.

The confection, one tradition holds, dates to about 12th century France, when early Europeans baked a circular cake to honor the three wise men – three kings – who brought gifts to baby Jesus (hence, that plastic baby).

The made-to-order beauties come with a chocolate ice cream that features White Rabbit candy (a milk-based nostalgic Chinese confection) plus a trove of mango popping pearls, chocolate Pop Rocks, and other toppings served in a wooden tea tower.

Advertentie

While not technically an egg, the shortbread biscuit pieces embedded in the shell of M&S's alternative confection are indulgent enough to earn it a place on our list.

Dark chocolate ganache tarts with honeycomb candy from Gross Confection Bar in Portland.

It lies in the whole outrageous, roaring, blistered and curled confection.

Last year alone she wore a lovely belted white tea dress, this ultra pretty pastel blue confection and this gorgeous green midi for her time watching the action on Centre Court.

They knew their speeches were a retinue of nice-sounding but meaningless platitudes much like a string of glossy commercials selling an attractive but fundamentally tasteless confection.

Try not snapping a photo of this sweet potato and ginger confection—but know it’s more than just a show pony.

At Rihanna’s Diamond Ball, Cardi looks like a gloriously blooming flower in this baby-pink tiered confection.

She went to her kitchen, tied her long lustrous brunette hair into a bun, put on her apron determined to whip out a delicious baked goodie, a confection like no other.

The second entry, published in July, is called, you guessed it, Indie director Adam Reid’s gonzo graphic confection, The Adventures of Barry & Joe, which styles Obama and Biden as time-traveling superheroes, was released this past spring.

The secret to the perfect battered Creme Egg is to first wet the chocolate, before covering it in flour and dipping it in batter, before submerging the confection in the fryer.

Were we, for some instance, to find ourselves wanting to consume a confection such as this, we would *only* lower ourselves to eat a Terry's DarkChocolate Orange.

Agador’s explosive orb of copper-colored frizz is routinely gussied up into a spherical confection atop his head.

Advertentie

Common combinations with confection

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "confection" in a sentence?
An example: "Based on's novel of the same namethis Regency-era confection clearly owes a debt to for its racially diverse cast and candy-colored costuming." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "confection" from authentic English texts.
What does "confection" mean?
Confection means: A food item prepared very sweet, frequently decorated in fine detail, and often preserved with sugar, such as a candy, sweetmeat, fruit preserve, pastry, or cake.
What are synonyms of "confection"?
Common synonyms of "confection" include: sweet, tack, set up, put together, piece, assemble, comfit, confect. Plus 7 more synonyms.
How many example sentences with "confection" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "confection", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.