- present participle of ice.
icing
Example Sentences
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It might also mean a thick slice of homemade apple Bundt cake under a generous coat of cream cheese icing, eaten with coffee.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026
Ingredients to bake fairy cakes with buttercream icing usually cost between £10 and £15 - depending on what you already have in the cupboard.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
Any enrichment and information is icing on the cake.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
They live in a silo for two, sharing their pain, icing their scars.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026
Its brown icing was as full of holes as the binding of a book when bookworms have been gnawing at it for years.
From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke
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