Example sentences for: cakes

How can you use “cakes” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Hoe cakes , originally baked on hoe, and hush puppies , allegedly so named because pieces of them were fed to dogs to keep them quite, are variations of what Southerners call corn bread and New Englanders call (spider) johnnycake: spider because it was baked in a spider , a black, cast-iron skillet.

  • • It is not only trousers that are implicitly excluded by the printed word (New York Sansculottery): the current obsession with knowing the ingredients of foodstuffs has resulted in several notices on items in bakers' shops, saying Our cakes are made with pure butter only, a culinary feat.

  • Hush puppies and hoe cakes were also terms sure to attact attention fifty years ago, but are now in common use.

  • Pilgrims would buy honey cakes for this snake and leave them at the temple entrance for it to enjoy.

  • She was a mother and thirty-three years old, and it seemed to her that everyone, especially someone the baker's age--a man old enough to be her father--must have children who'd gone through this special time of cakes and birthday parties.


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