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How to use frosting in a sentence

23 example sentences · noun

Frosting means icing, a sweet, often creamy and thick, covering for cakes and other baked goods. Example: “The frosting in his beard was a giveaway that he had been munching the cake.”

Examples of frosting by meaning

nounIcing, a sweet, often creamy and thick, covering for cakes and other baked goods.

  • I tried it, and it dried up, ’specially the frosting.1915, Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna Grows Up, The Page Company

More sentences with frosting

  • The frosting in his beard was a giveaway that he had been munching the cake.From the entry giveaway
  • The frosting just needs a little touch-up to be smooth and even.From the entry touch-up
  • The frosting had a strong vanillalike flavor, much reminiscent of vanilla ice cream.From the entry vanillalike
  • I liked to look in the baker's store window and examine the array of different frostings on display.From the entry frostings
  • For dessert, there's cherry Bakewell tart with almond frosting and caramelised pecans.2025 January 14, Hayley Minn, “How to dine like royalty in London... for peanuts! The best luxury set meal deals in the capital (including…. From the entry cherry bakewell tart
  • The muffins can be frozen if unfrosted, but do not freeze the frosting.2017, Maria Emmerich, Keto Comfort Foods, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 58. From the entry muffin
  • These pies are finished with a delicious frosting made with marshmallow crème.2017, Miranda Couse, “Oatmeal Cream Pies”, in Easy Homemade Cookie Cookbook: Simple Recipes for the Best Chocolate Chip Cookies, Brownies…. From the entry marshmallow crème
  • For a more milk chocolaty frosting, replace 2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa with soy milk powder.2009, Erin McKenna with Chris Cechin, “Chocolate Frosting / Chocolate Sauce”, in BabyCakes: Vegan, Gluten-Free, and (Mostly) Sugar-Free…. From the entry milk chocolaty
  • The latest is: we got a little more frosting in the north.2003, Xcp: Cross-cultural Poetics, page 123. From the entry cakeful
  • I smelled the frosting for like 12 hours.”2019 March 21, Michael Casagrande, “The story behind Alabama softball’s record 31-0 start”, in AL.com. From the entry cupcake
  • We’re now decorated in pink and white frosting.2016, Christina Hoag, Girl on the Brink, Fire and Ice, →ISBN, page 11. From the entry cupcake
  • Color-vision changes are complex with various manifestations, including frosting or white tinges on objects, decreased brightness or specific color loss.2015, Frederick T. Fraunfelder, Frederick W. Fraunfelder, Wiley A. Chambers, “Part 7: Drug-induced Ocular Side Effects”, in Drug-induced…. From the entry tinge
  • Dessert is a trio of red velvet cupcakes with creamcheese frosting ($9) that proves to be the surprise of the evening.2009 March 5, Gordon Morash, “We go in style: Upscale Hundred Bar + Kitchen the perfect choice for pre-Citadel meal”, in Vue Weekly…. From the entry creamcheese
  • Frosting and Tipping of your hair is for winter hi-fashion.1962 January 22, Betty Chason, “Vanity Fair”, in The News Tribune, volume 59, number 37, Fort Pierce, Fla., →OCLC, page 6, column 7. From the entry brunette
  • You are not using the frosting as a glue, as in making a gingerbread house, so it is not necessary that it dry rock hard.2007, Meaghan Mountford, Cookie Sensations: Creative Designs for Every Occasion, page 25. From the entry rock hard
  • A pretty, if conventional-looking cake, very moist with lots of strips of carrots, coconut, plump raisins, a cream cheesy frosting that’s not too sweet.1996, Charles A. Suisman with Carol Molesworth, Manhattan User’s Guide: The Guide to New York for New Yorkers, New York, N.Y.: Hyperion…. From the entry cream cheesy
  • Carrot Cake is $1.75 for a generous slice which was not as moist as I like it, but was rescued by the creamcheese frosting.1985 December 10, Jayne Salvo, “Within your range: Make a date with the Backside”, in MainSheet, volume 18, number 6, West Barnstable…. From the entry creamcheese
  • At its center was a caramel-covered slice of jalapeno—the Hatter's surprise—but it was the tequila cream cheese frosting that made Alice have a mouthgasm every time.2017, Jovee Winters, The Mad King. From the entry mouthgasm
  • She squeezed out a lump of whipped cream frosting onto two of the last batch of Black Forest cupcakes when a throat cleared in the front and startled her.2014, Sarina Bowen, Rebecca Avery, Amy Jo Cousins, Denise McDonald, Harlequin E Contemporary Romance Box Set, volume 1, Toronto, Ont.…. From the entry black forest
  • Even if he puts on a layer of lubricant as thick as cake frosting, his thighs are creating sparks before the end of the first mile.2007, John Bingham, Jenny Hadfield, Running for Mortals: A Commonsense Plan for Changing Your Life With Running, Rodale, →ISBN, page 174. From the entry chub rub
  • There is hot chocolate with whipped cream to drink, chocolate ice cream, chocolate cakes with white frosting or white cakes with chocolate frosting and chocolate bonbons.1907 March 8, “All of Chocolate: Confections for Luncheon or Afternoon Tea. Beverage, Cookies, Biscuits and Cake All Provided For—very…. From the entry chocolatière
  • Cake is a tall preener, calling out from the center of the dining room table, but often disappointing with overly cloying frosting or a crumb that proves less than moist.2013 January 7, Jennifer Steinhauer, “Humble Pie? Precisely”, in The New York Times. From the entry preener

Meaning of frosting

  1. noun Icing, a sweet, often creamy and thick, covering for cakes and other baked goods.
  2. noun A layer of frost.
  3. noun The theft of a car while it is left unattended, especially when its engine is left running in the winter to defrost the car.

Full definition of frosting

Questions about frosting in a sentence

How do you use frosting in a sentence?
Frosting is used as a noun. For example: “The frosting in his beard was a giveaway that he had been munching the cake.”
What is a short sentence with frosting?
“I smelled the frosting for like 12 hours.””
What does frosting mean?
Frosting means icing, a sweet, often creamy and thick, covering for cakes and other baked goods.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: frosting (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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