Example Sentences

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Thunderstorms from Southern California’s monsoon season brought a temporary cooling reprieve over the weekend to a region that had been baking under a triple-digit heat wave but also sparked new wildfires.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 15, 2024

“My mom was a really good home cook, and I had been baking my whole life, but picked it back up 10 years ago,” he told the New York Post.

From NewsForKids.net • May 31, 2024

One of the seven cookers had been baking a cake, whose cozy winter aroma filled the gold-green summer day.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 23, 2019

Louise Haines, a publisher at 4th Estate, recalls that the previous big trend in British food publishing had been baking, but the baking boom “died overnight, virtually, and a number of sugar-free books came through”.

From The Guardian • Aug. 11, 2017

A man said that he was operating a swan boat with a radio pressed to his ear; a woman had been baking rolls for her grandchildren.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri