cake
noun
a sweet, baked, breadlike food, made with or without shortening, and usually containing flour, sugar, baking powder or soda, eggs, and liquid flavoring.
was caking
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past progressiveof cake.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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So if by the end of her life, as Gavin records, Lee was caking herself in makeup and going on crash diets and staying in bed, it is not hard to understand why.
From Slate ● Nov. 5, 2014
Then they made me tell them what you looked like, and I did my best, and they laughed and said I was caking it on, so I showed them your photograph.
From Jonah and Co. by Yates, Dornford
