Sentence examples for the cannoli from inspiring English sources
noun
Tubes of fried pasta, filled with ricotta or similar cream cheese, and flavorings, eaten as a dessert; typical of Sicily.
Take the cannoli" — from "The Godfather".
The cannoli are crisp, our waiter advised.
Sarah Vowell, author of "Take the Cannoli".
The cannoli, at Mike's Pastry, Modern Pastry and Maria's Pastry Shop, are as irresistible as ever.
The cannoli arrived: crisp cylinders, stuffed with chocolate and vanilla creams.
The cannoli we sampled was crisp and seemed to have been freshly filled.
Dessert seemed almost anticlimactic, and aspersions were cast, in particular against the cannoli.
Just substitute "Leave the copter, take the corpse" for "Leave the gun, take the cannoli".
Remember the line in the Godfather: "Take the gun, leave the cannoli".
The cannoli are really rolled lace cookies, cigarillo width, filled with flavored mascarpone.
The key, Mr. DiLillo says, is to ship the cannoli shells separate from the creamy filling.
