Example Sentences
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Around her are patio tables displaying the kind of food the shop carried: pies and cakes, what appear to be stuffed tomatoes, baguettes, sophisticated deli salads, gorgeous hunks of cheese.
From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2026
Selling like hot cakes — Taylor Swift’s wedding trash.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 8, 2026
Her husband can’t hold a job, so she starts baking cakes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
Her eyes sting with tears as the petite cakes thunk to the bottom of the trash.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
There is a whole aisle for snack cakes, and I could offer all of them.
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
