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Example sentences for "cakes"

Lexicographically close words:
cajoleries; cajolery; cajoling; cake; caked; caking; cal; calabash; calabashes; calaboose
  1. If you can get pistachionuts to pound up for the green the cakes will be much nicer.

  2. Now bring on your coffee and your ash cakes and your fish, and we’ll feast like a company of Homer’s warriors.

  3. Now we must hurry back to the fire, for the ash cakes must be about done and the coffee made.

  4. His talk was but of scanty barley-cakes and grudging welcome, while lo!

  5. Lemonade Sometimes in the afternoon Margaret's aunts had tea and cakes or wafers, and in summer they often had iced tea or lemonade.

  6. Oatmeal Macaroons These little cakes are so like real macaroons that no one who had not seen the recipe would guess how they were made.

  7. Sweet Corn Griddle-cakes These ought to be made of fresh sweet corn, but you can make them in winter out of canned grated corn, or canned corn rubbed through a colander.

  8. Heat two tablespoonfuls of nice dripping, and when it is hot lay in the cakes and brown, turning each with the cake-turner as it gets crusty on the bottom.

  9. Potato Cakes Take two cups of mashed potato, and mix well with the beaten yolk of one egg, and make into small flat cakes; dip each into flour.

  10. CAKE Next after the ices in her book, Margaret found the cake to eat with them, and first of all there was a rule for some little cakes which the smallest girl in the neighborhood used to make all alone.

  11. She noted the long hours; made friends with the Inspector at Grosvenor Gate, and sent supplies of hot tea and cakes for his men.

  12. You go and eat your cakes before they get cold," she answered.

  13. Breakfast was soon on the table-fresh coffee, fresh eggs, and dainty buckwheat cakes baked by Dora's own hands.

  14. I'll teach you to pat little cakes in English!

  15. Miss Theodosia, don't birthday cakes sometimes have candles round the edge of 'em?

  16. Were not letters found concealed in innocent looking cakes and such like?

  17. She had turned aside to look at the hearth-cakes she had been toasting when he came in, and then gone into the necessary details of arrangement in the most matter-of-fact way.

  18. All who come with me shall have cakes galore.

  19. And is it all like Baby's best sash, and are there cakes and f'owers and cows?

  20. You always get thirteen of any penny buns or cakes for a shilling," she said; "and some shops will give you seven halfpenny ones for threepence.

  21. The ceremonies of the day concluded with a cold collation of cakes and fruit.

  22. The hoary Nestor consecrated first Both cakes and water, and with earnest pray'r To Pallas, gave the forelock to the flames.

  23. When all had worshipp'd, and the broken cakes Sprinkled, then godlike Thrasymedes drew Close to the ox, and smote him.

  24. But we discovered that they were only drinking, as before, and perhaps nibbling at little cakes or rolls.

  25. It is a grand straight road from Orleans to Fontainebleau, and it passes through Pithiviers, which did not look especially interesting, though we discovered when it was too late that it is noted for its almond cakes and lark pies.

  26. We might have lingered a little in the winding streets and made further discoveries, but the Joy had already sighted a place where the most attractive rolls and French cakes filled the window.

  27. It is better not to try to send any public news of any kind from England; people having been stupid trying to smuggle letters in cakes and things, and it only makes trouble for everyone.

  28. He looks anxiously at his plate of cakes or pyramid of apples and slightly alters their arrangement, with an evident idea that a great deal depends on their being disposed exactly thus and so.

  29. Shape the butter into two thin cakes and put in a pan of ice-water to harden.

  30. Some prefer to pack the meat in jars, pouring melted lard over it, covering the top, to be taken out as wanted and made into small round cakes with the hands, then fried brown.

  31. In lifting pies or cakes from bright tin pans, use great caution that the knife does not scrape off flecks of bright metal.

  32. Raised cakes require longer time than cakes made with baking powder.

  33. Cakes should be kept in tight tin cake-cans, or earthen jars, in a cool, dry place.

  34. Season with salt and pepper; make into cakes as large as a biscuit, but quite flat, or into one large flat cake a little less than half an inch thick.

  35. Whites of three eggs and some sugar beaten together not quite as stiff as usual for frosting; spread over the cake, add some grated cocoanut, then put your cakes together; put cocoanut and frosting on top.

  36. Have griddle well heated, make cakes large, bake nicely brown, and serve with maple syrup.

  37. So, when he adjured her by God, she had compassion on him and gave him two cakes of bread.

  38. Sometimes dey'd cook hoe cakes in a fire of coals.

  39. De cakes would be put right into the fire, and would be washed off clean after they were racked out from de coals.

  40. Well, maybe you baked the pan-cakes but Mose was there to advise and start that breakfast going!

  41. Among the cakes passed around were certain cookies that the boys preferred to any others.

  42. Miranda preferred to think the visit was due to no such interested motives; but she at once took up a plate of cakes which she had drenched in molasses for the requirements of her own taste.

  43. The enchanting smell of buckwheat cakes and molasses was a new one to Kroof's nostrils, but the taste for it was there, full grown and waiting.

  44. The cakes disappeared rather more rapidly than was consistent with good manners: the molasses was deftly licked up, and with a grin of rapture she looked about for more.

  45. The cakes alluded to in the above verse, which children presented to their parents on these occasions, were called Simnells.

  46. Possibly they had some religious signification, for the Saxons were in habit of eating consecrated cakes at their festivals.

  47. Hardly had Mr. Tiralla driven away with Rosa than Mrs. Tiralla left the maid to bake the cakes alone.

  48. And the cakes had turned out a great success.

  49. The meat and cakes and wine were passed to the men by the women, and when they had been well served, the women too sat down under a tree and ate their supper.

  50. So they ran to the kitchen, seized some barley-cakes and a little jar of milk, and in a few minutes were back again in the field.

  51. When Chloe and Daphne returned from the spring, she had barley-cakes baking in the oven, and sausages were roasting before the hearth-fire.

  52. When she had served the men and had explained that these cakes were really not so good as her barley-cakes usually were, Lydia gave the Twins each one, and she gave Daphne a sausage.

  53. Dion and Daphne also brought wood for the fire, while the slave women mixed cakes of meal and baked them in the ashes, or went to the spring for water, or carried refreshing drinks to the workers in the field.

  54. Then Chloe brought the sausages hot from the fire, and barley-cakes from the oven.


  55. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cakes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.