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UK
/kənfˈɛti/
]
[ US /kənˈfɛti/ ]
[ US /kənˈfɛti/ ]
NOUN
- small pieces or streamers of colored paper that are thrown around on festive occasions (as at a wedding)
How To Use confetti In A Sentence
- I suppose there is nothing inherently wrong with film writers of all stripes turning into circus clowns, traipsing around on unicycles and throwing buckets of confetti that the audience thought were full of water.
- No more fuzzy programmes with muffled sound and colours like confetti in a puddle. The Sun
- In the intervals between them endless open carriages moved along, lined with white, filled with white dominos, drawn by horses all protected and covered with white cotton robes, against the whiter 'confetti' -- everyone fighting mock battles with everyone else, till it seemed impossible that anything could be left to throw, and the long perspective of the narrow street grew dim between the high palaces, and misty and purple in the evening light. Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 1 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome
- I took the flimsy song words on paper and ripped them up, till coloured confetti showered on my legs and hands.
- Children ran down the streets, throwing confetti and screaming at the top of their lungs, dragging toy trains and teddy bears behind them.
- Twenty minutes later, his foot on the head of a very large, very red, and above all very dead dragon while the crowd cheered and threw confetti, Edwin spied a familiar figure staggering towards him in battered armour. Squired-Up
- Confetti was all around and Chris and I planted a big smooch on each other.
- It was carnival time, yodelling filled the air and party poppers were flecking the whiteness with multicoloured confetti. Times, Sunday Times
- Were all those collecting credit cards like confetti merely trying to pay for school fees or increase their charitable donations? Times, Sunday Times
- It may be a rare privilege to do the honours in a marriage ceremony, but invitations to the USPGA aren't exactly distributed like confetti.