Sentence examples for bits of icing from inspiring English sources

Krylova's daughters, five and 11, zoom in and out of the sitting room, leaning over the sofa to whisper to their mother, desperate to pick bits of icing off the enormous and unusual cake she has had made for her husband's birthday – decorated with a large marzipan model of her, instantly recognisable with flowing blonde hair and cheekbones, perched on the edge of the cake, next to a winged angel.

It does exactly what I need it to do and adds a bit of icing to the cake as well.

Shoes were encrusted in bits of ice.

"There were still other bits of ice and a child fell and grazed themselves," he said.

Those bits of ice correlate with previously seen red patches on the surface — and scientists aren't sure why.

Each time he shattered the glass into little shards that looked like tiny bits of ice strewn around the court.

We wore helmets for protection from the bits of ice that rained down whenever Nidever kicked or hammered into an especially brittle section.

The story is unsubtly borrowed from The Lion King and The Jungle Book, with bits of Ice Age and The Croods.

When experimentalists simulated an actual strike by firing projectiles into bits of ice laced with what Goldman calls a "comet-like mixture" of methanol, ammonia, carbon dioxide, and carbon monoxide, that is precisely what happened.

After half an hour, the dogs' appetites started to wane, and Seavey turned to sled maintenance, using his knife to shave nicks and remove bits of ice from the edges of the blue plastic runners on his blades.

Fortunately, Mather continued, the lady was not planning to marry in white: otherwise "she'd look like one of those great big bits of ice that have just fallen off the Antarctic.