frosting

Example Sentences

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One of the more polite children at our doomed gathering explained that she only liked the pink and blue frosting on supermarket cakes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

Everything else is just frosting on the cake.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 30, 2026

Susan Prunty’s bakery in Medford, Ore., sold about 25 Christmas cookie decorating kits through the middle of last December, complete with a dozen freshly baked sugar cookies, buttercream frosting, and sprinkles.

From Barron's • Dec. 24, 2025

Someone asked Perkins about the colors, how she got the frosting to look the way it did.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 20, 2025

He stood and scanned the island—bleach-white dunes, blankets of grass, and boulders encrusted with salt like frosting.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan