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bake sale

American  

noun

  • bake sales
    plural
  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 beauty of the bake sale is that its power is not in how it's scaled, but rather in the thought and the feeling behind it.

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

“Maybe we could have a bake sale for pets,” I say.

From "The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl" by Stacy McAnulty

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