CAKE in a Sentence

Learn CAKE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
136 example sentences for CAKE, such as:
1. The cake has a biscuit base.
2. She gimme a hunk o cake, one time.
3. Divide the cake with your brother.
4. The knife easily cut into the cake.
5. Sprinkle chocolate on top of the cake.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of CAKE
cake
 n.  a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax)
 n.  baked goods made from or based on a mixture of flour, sugar, eggs, and fat
Classic Sentence: (87 in 6 pages)
1  "Try a hot cake," said Mammy inexorably.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
2  Scarlett sopped the wheat cake in the gravy and put it in her mouth.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
3  And three desserts, so everyone might have his choice, chocolate layer cake, vanilla blanc mange and pound cake topped with sweet whipped cream.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
4  The heavy old mahogany table, spread with cake and decanters, still presided in the empty-looking dining room but it was scratched and the broken legs showed signs of clumsy repair.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
5  She saw Frank coming across the floor toward her with a glass of blackberry wine in his hand and a morsel of cake on a saucer and she pulled her face into a smile.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
6  Selden was rummaging in a cupboard for the cake.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
7  "I do," he assured her, emerging from the cupboard with the sought-for cake.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
8  "You shouldn't dine with her on wash-days," said Selden, cutting the cake.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
9  Then they distributed hot buttered rolls, coffee poured from an enamel-ware pot, stuffed olives, potato salad, and angel's-food cake.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
10  She gimme a hunk o cake, one time.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
11  She nervously pushed away her cake and stewed apricots.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
12  But at the supper Maud was one of the waitresses; she bustled with platters of cake, she was pleasant to old women; and to Erik she gave no attention at all.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
13  She baked either pies or cake for us every day, unless, for a change, she made my favourite pudding, striped with currants and boiled in a bag.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IX
14  Grandmother began to make the icing for a chocolate cake, and Otto again filled the house with the exciting, expectant song of the plane.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XV
15  At supper the men ate like vikings, and the chocolate cake, which I had hoped would linger on until tomorrow in a mutilated condition, disappeared on the second round.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XV
Example Sentence: (49 in 4 pages)
1  A bad custom is like a good cake, better broken than kept.
2  Whoever made this cake is a real artist.
3  The cake has a biscuit base.
4  Sprinkle chocolate on top of the cake.
5  I've put the cake on a high shelf where he can't get at it.
6  This cake is made with ten eggs, which give it a rich taste.
7  I made the icing while the cake was baking.
8  You cannot eat your cake and have your cake.
9  Divide the cake with your brother.
10  Turn the cake upside down and cover it with cream.
11  You can use cocoa powder to make the cake rather than chocolate - it's a bit of a cheat, but nobody notices the difference.
12  The knife easily cut into the cake.
13  He'd piped fresh cream around the edge of the cake.
14  Please cut the cake into eight pieces.
15  The children enjoy mixing up the fruit and nuts in the cake.