bake
verb (used with object)
to cook by dry heat in an oven or on heated metal or stones.
is baking
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present progressiveof bake (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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His apartment is baking and it is "impossible to live with all the mosquitoes."
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
“The level Corning’s stock is at today is baking in everything going right, and nothing going wrong,” says William Kerwin, a senior equity analyst at Morningstar.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 7, 2026
She said through a Spanish interpreter that she works in fields during the day, when the sun is baking, and comes back to a run-down home with no air conditioning.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2025
A technique that some bakers may not be familiar with is baking an assembled pastry from fully frozen.
From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2024
“Cecilia is baking for you and your sisters. You have become her special pets.”
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
