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. She gimme a hunk o cake, one time.
2. He took a small piece of the cake.
3. The cake has a nice light texture.
4. Invert the cake onto a cooling rack.
5. Between them they ate an entire cake.

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 Meanings and Examples of CAKE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
cake
 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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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)
16  Between them they ate an entire cake.
17  His cake is four times as big as mine.
18  I'll share my apple with you if you'll give me half of your cake.
19  She picked the best cake for herself.
20  She cut herself a great wodge of chocolate cake.
21  There's some cake in the kitchen if you'd like it.
22  Rice flour makes the cake less likely to crumble.
23  This cake has a layer of fruit in the middle.
24  It's best to slice into a rich cake from the middle.
25  The cake has a nice light texture.
26  Invert the cake onto a cooling rack.
27  He took a small piece of the cake.
28  As soon as the cake is done, remove it from the oven.
29  The meal was perfect, the wonderful view from the restaurant the icing on the cake.
30  Store the cake in an airtight container.