cupcake
Example Sentences
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“I brought a cupcake — vegan vanilla. Bet it tastes pretty rancid,” Lanier said during closings, brandishing the baked good during an extended metaphor.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026
The sensory mismatch — a coconut-flavored “potato” — is a little kid’s dream, like the Jelly Belly “Bean Boozled” pack or a cupcake that looks like a hamburger.
From Salon • Mar. 17, 2026
Which is why many feel the attempted solution might be more problematic than Nakamura’s cupcake tour.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 5, 2025
She’s a walking cupcake — in this genre, a disposable-seeming treat — yet the way Madelyn Cline plays her is fabulous.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 18, 2025
While everyone grabbed the next cupcake, I ran to my backpack, which I’d left inside the supply closet with the aprons, to get my bottle of water.
From "From the Desk of Zoe Washington" by Janae Marks
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
