How do you use the word "cream" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "cream": You shouldn't have eaten so much ice cream. There is nothing like summer and ice cream.

Cream Meaning

/kɹiːm/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounThe butterfat or milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder.

nounThe butterfat or milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder., The liquid separated from milk, possibly with certain other milk products added, and with at least eighteen percent of it milkfat.

Sentence Examples

You shouldn't have eaten so much ice cream.

There is nothing like summer and ice cream.

We had strawberries and cream for dessert.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

bat pick lick

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

She added a dollop of fresh ____ to the hot berry pie.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

You shouldn't have eaten so much ice ____.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English creime, creme, from Old French creme, cresme, blend of Late Latin chrisma (“ointment”) (from Ancient Greek χρῖσμα (khrîsma, “unguent”)), and Late Latin crāmum (“cream”), from Gaulish *crama (compare Welsh cramen (“scab, skin”), Breton crammen), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)krama- (compare Middle Irish screm (“surface, skin”), Dutch schram (“abrasion”), Lithuanian kramas (“scurf”)). Doublet of crema and crème. Displaced native Old English rēam (“cream”) (> modern ream). Figurative sense of "most excellent element or part" appears from 1581. Verb meaning "to beat, thrash, wreck" is 1929, U.S. colloquial. The U.S. standard of identity is from 21 CFR 131.3(a).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"Hundreds of examples remain, still following the same general pattern—maroon, green or chocolate brown, for example, from ground to waist level, then a stale Cheddar cheese shade of cream above." — 1962 October, Brian Haresnape, “Focus on B.R. passenger stations”, in Modern Railways, page 253:

"Originally the cream filling in Oreo cookies was made with pork lard." — 2004, Joey Green, Joey Green's Incredible Country Store, Rodale, →ISBN, page 267:

"“But the cream of it was," said Norman, pressing a large tortoiseshell-rimmed monocle into his eye, “you don't mind me telling this, Face, do you?”" — 1918 August, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Bliss”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, page 124:

"[…] he can assure the assembled Deans that all this is true, and that the Academy has presently in residence no fewer than a third of the continent’s top thirty juniors, in age brackets all across the board, and that I here, who go by ‘Hal,’ usually, am ‘right up there among the very cream.’" — 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 4:

"In vain she tries her paste and creams, / To smooth her skin or hide its seams." — 1756, Oliver Goldsmith, The Double Transformation:

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