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 Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)