Sentence examples for the fruitcake from inspiring English sources
noun
A cake containing dried fruits and, optionally, nuts, citrus peel and spice.
The fruitcake, by contrast, does not need updating.
Students of the political language refer to it as "the fruitcake episode".
HILLARY: Just wait until you see how I carve the fruitcake.
The last two segments wed the fruitcake fantasy of the Carter scene with the emotional groundedness of the Nixon scene.
Dr. Cobb made a few prints for family and friends, and then tucked the fruitcake tin away in a trunk.
She had sent the fruitcake from her kitchen in Mountain View, Calif., as she does every year.
People speak of it in terms of endurance and survival — oh, the gridlock, the fruitcake, the crazy great-aunt!
It really should, if multiculturalism means anything, find its way onto American Christmas menus, right alongside the fruitcake.
In addition, the "fruitcakes," as Ms. Blunt calls them, are ringing up.
They may be best known for the fruitcakes, cheese and honey they produce, as well as for the memory of Merton.
Those Blairites referring to their Labour colleagues as "morons" for putting Corbyn on the leadership ballot paper should remember how much the fruitcakes managed to achieve in the years after Cameron insulted them.
