Sentence examples for fruitcake as from inspiring English sources

The original event, the basic "Fruitcake Toss", gives contestants the chance to physically throw a one pound fruitcake as far as possible.

Each man vies to be the most deadpan, determined to present his character, a solemn clairvoyant fruitcake, as nuttier than the rest.

He declared himself a "practising fruitcake" as he described living with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), which for him manifests itself mainly in doing things in multiples of fours.

Because of the soaking of the fruit and the use of brown sugar and a bittersweet caramel called browning, black cake is to American fruitcake as dark chocolate is to milk chocolate: darker, deeper and altogether more absorbing.

We even get Willem Dafoe bringing a cake to a Thanksgiving dinner and storming out with the words "Enjoy the fruitcake," as if we hadn't already been enjoying him for the last hour and a half.

Yes, the Nets took their turn Wednesday night as the latest holiday disappointment, their roster suddenly looking as fresh as last year's fruitcake as the Knicks disposed of them so easily that they were all contemplating their next pedicure by midway through the fourth quarter.

In addition, the "fruitcakes," as Ms. Blunt calls them, are ringing up.

For Caribbeans, fruitcake is as emblematic of Christmas as Salvation Army Santas are for New Yorkers.

The air smells of fruitcake and wine as crowds gather at an outdoor stage for festive singing and dancing.

4 stars Harrods, iced top bar serves 4, £7.95 It's a little dry to cut but there's a decent amount of fruit and it's suitably dense, just as fruitcake should be.

What we envision as fruitcake is a quickly assembled, cheaply constructed facsimile.