frost
noun
a degree or state of coldness sufficient to cause the freezing of water.
is frosting
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present progressiveof frost (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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If it does, that is frosting on the cake.
From Salon ● May 5, 2013
Combine today's numbers with the weak housing sales report from last week, and it looks like the hope for a housing revival this spring is frosting over.
From Time ● Apr. 25, 2011
You shoot off your fireworks and pull your stunts," he says, "but all that is frosting on the cake.
From Time Magazine Archive
I look at the cake my mother is frosting, the number “10” on the top, just like every other year.
From "Al Capone Does My Shirts" by Gennifer Choldenko
Harry," cried Margot the Queen, "your beard is frosting, and there are white hairs on my coif at thirty-eight.
From The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
