How to Use icing on the cake in a Sentence
icing on the cake
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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
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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
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The fact that Whispering Pines became No. 1 in Texas is just icing on the cake.
—Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 7 May 2023
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The extra bells and whistles, especially the Power Case, are icing on the cake.
—Garrett Munce, Men's Health, 25 Apr. 2023
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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
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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
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So anything else that's happened afterward has been icing on the cake.
—Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 2 Aug. 2023
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The convenient slip-on design is really just icing on the cake.
—Merrell Readman, Travel + Leisure, 29 Feb. 2024
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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
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The endearing patterns are really just icing on the cake.
—Merrell Readman, Travel + Leisure, 20 Mar. 2024
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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
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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
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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
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