Example Sentences

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Once back inside, the canning jars will frost with fog in my warm kitchen as I mound potatoes in the sink before scrubbing their skins to a shine.

From Salon • Nov. 24, 2022

She sends her love, and says when you come to me next summer she will frost you each one just like it.

From What Katy Did at School by Coolidge, Susan

This amount will frost nine two-layer cakes, nine and one quarter inches in diameter.

From Quantity Cookery Menu Planning and Cooking for Large Numbers by Richards, Lenore

A mustache will frost itself from the breath and stiffen slowly at zero, but It does not become solid.

From Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life by Knox, Thomas Wallace