bait
noun
food, or some substitute, used as a lure in fishing, trapping, etc.
has been baiting
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present perfect progressiveof bait (3rd person singular).present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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The West Australian newspaper has been baiting the England team since they arrived in Perth.
From BBC ● Nov. 20, 2025
John McEnroe has been baiting Serena and Venus Williams into a match for years, to try to drum up business for himself.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 26, 2017
Germany's Bastian Schweinsteiger has been baiting Maradona in the build-up to the match - a repeat of the 2006 quarter-final which Germany won on penalties.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 4, 2010
Friedrich has left the mouse-trap open;—and latterly has been baiting it with a pleasant spicing of toasted cheese.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 15 by Thomas Carlyle
A hunter has made that blind to shoot Black Ducks from," thought Farmer Brown's boy, "and he has been baiting them in here by scattering corn for them.
From Blacky the Crow by Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess
