bake
verb (used with object)
to cook by dry heat in an oven or on heated metal or stones.
have been baking
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present perfect progressiveof bake.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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“My friends and I have been baking together every holiday season for the past 25 years. We call it the annual ‘bake-a-thon.’
From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2022
He later said the substance might have been baking soda.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2022
In anticipation of our annual holiday extravaganza, I have been baking a lot of cookies.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 9, 2021
In anticipation of our annual holiday extravaganza, I have been baking a lot of cookies lately.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 18, 2021
Remember it never rains here; these hills have never known water since the Flood, but have been baking in this vast kiln for a million years.
From The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise by Albert Bigelow Paine
