How to Use icing on the cake in a Sentence

icing on the cake

noun phrase

• The fact that new players can claim up to €2,500 is just icing on the cake.
  — Sponsored Content, The Mercury News, 5 Mar. 2024
• The half-up, half-down look was topped with a black velvet bow, which is just icing on the cake.
  — Julia Meehan, Peoplemag, 19 July 2023
• The fact that Whispering Pines became No. 1 in Texas is just icing on the cake.
  — Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 7 May 2023
• The extra bells and whistles, especially the Power Case, are icing on the cake.
  — Garrett Munce, Men's Health, 25 Apr. 2023
• For many Black women, natural full lips are just icing on the cake to a beauty look which will never go out of style.
  — India Espy-Jones, Essence, 23 Aug. 2023
• Their non-skid soles are just icing on the cake, especially if your trip has a lot of walking on the itinerary.
  — Kristine Solomon, Travel + Leisure, 21 Aug. 2023
• So anything else that's happened afterward has been icing on the cake.
  — Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 2 Aug. 2023
• The convenient slip-on design is really just icing on the cake.
  — Merrell Readman, Travel + Leisure, 29 Feb. 2024
• The two spacious side pockets are icing on the cake to an already impeccable pair of workout tights.
  — Theresa Holland, Travel + Leisure, 16 Feb. 2024
• The endearing patterns are really just icing on the cake.
  — Merrell Readman, Travel + Leisure, 20 Mar. 2024
• Now Hopkins and – maybe especially – Cook could become icing on the cake for Super Bowl 58 contenders seeking one more ace for their hand.
  — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 17 June 2023
• For both directors, being accepted into the festival was already a validation of their work, so seeing how the film resonated with an audience and also win an award was just icing on the cake.
  — Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2023
• Today there is a reflexive tendency to think of literature, and also other forms of culture, as an extra, as an ornament, as icing on the cake, as something that is expendable and unnecessary.
  — Merve Emre, The New York Review of Books, 13 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Aug 2024