Cake in a sentence as a noun

"You can have your cake and eat it too.

Compared to that, dealing with the UN is a piece of cake.

That's icing on the cake, to me, because I protect my family.

The Obama administration wants to have its cake and eat it to.

Icing on the cake: back of the mind, you might worry about milkman's bills and the birthday gifts to be brought for your kid's friends.

Cake in a sentence as a verb

US law enforcement would like to have their cake and eat it too, using a novel warrant-subpoena hybrid.

It means that the IE team clearly saw through Mozilla's transparent attempt to get more cake by releasing more often.

The hopelessly mixed metaphor is just icing on the cake, but you do have to break a few eggs to throw the baby out before it's hatched.

That you can adjust the focus after you shoot is icing on the cake, but tremendously delicious icing.

But that is just about the only icing on this cake, other than that there needs to be some real hard work done to set this right and to do what can be done to avoid a repetition in the future.

Cake definitions

noun

a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax); "a bar of chocolate"

noun

small flat mass of chopped food

See also: patty

noun

baked goods made from or based on a mixture of flour, sugar, eggs, and fat

verb

form a coat over; "Dirt had coated her face"

See also: coat