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
“Humans have been baking bread for thousands of years, and we know about the earliest bakers from hieroglyphs in Egypt,” said Lauren Nichols, an ecologist at North Carolina State University.
From Washington Post ● May 15, 2020
We have been baking to-day, and I wish you would accept a loaf of bread.
From A Little Girl of Long Ago by Douglas, Amanda Minnie
