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bake sale

American  

noun

  1. a sale of homemade, donated baked goods, as by a church or club to raise money.


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The life-limiting condition will eventually leave him reliant on a wheelchair and in need of specialist home adaptations, so the family are raising money pound by pound, bake sale by bake sale.

From BBC • Dec. 12, 2025

She cooks strange things for him — a school bake sale becomes a source of humiliation for him.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 24, 2025

The power of a humble grassroots bake sale is amazing.

From Salon • Jul. 12, 2023

When I asked a group of students doing a bake sale next to the basketball court, they said they had never seen anyone there.

From New York Times • Jul. 7, 2023

The caption read: Mount Carmel Missionary Circle prepares a bake sale to raise funds for Briggs v.

From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson