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How to use bake in a sentence

40 example sentences · verb, noun

Bake means to cook (something) in an oven (for someone). Example: “I baked a delicious cherry pie.”

Examples of bake by meaning

verbTo cook (something) in an oven (for someone).

  • I baked a delicious cherry pie.
  • She's been baking all day to prepare for the dinner.
  • He baked her a cake.

verbTo be cooked in an oven.

  • The cake baked at 350°F.

verbTo regularly prepare baked goods.

  • In some cultures, it is expected that a proper housewife should bake.

verbTo smoke marijuana.

  • (Let's bake tonight.)

verbTo incorporate into something greater.

  • Disagreements between pilots' unions are baked into the merger cake.2014, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Aviation Operations, Safety, and...
  • Many of the causes of governmental dysfunction are simply baked into the cake of American politics and will never change.2016, David B. Woolner, John M. Thompson, Progressivism in America: Past, Present and Future, page 100

verbTo be warmed for drying and hardening.

  • The clay baked in the sun.

verbTo dry by heat.

  • They baked the electrical parts lightly to remove moisture.

verbTo be hot.

  • It is baking in the greenhouse.
  • I'm baking after that workout in the gym.

More sentences with bake

  • This bake sale is going to be the death of me!From the entry death
  • Put a little baking soda in some vinegar and watch what happens.From the entry watch
  • Place the rolls on the cookie sheet, edges touching, and bake for 10-11 minutes.From the entry sheet
  • Yeast is used to leaven bread, making it rise during baking.From the entry leaven
  • The car was baking after having been parked in the sun the whole afternoon.From the entry baking
  • That thing is a poor excuse for a gingerbread man. Hasn't anyone taught you how to bake?From the entry excuse
  • Baking takes up so much of her time, it's practically a jobby.From the entry jobby
  • Stevia is not substitutable for sugar in baking: the recipes won't work; they taste terrible.From the entry substitutable
  • After baking and cooling, tip the cake out of its pan.From the entry tip out
  • We'll need to bake more of those new chicken and mushroom pies. The customers can't get enough.From the entry can't get enough
  • Can we still call it a bake sale even though I'm bringing my grandma's famous no-bakes?From the entry no-bake
  • Watch out — the chrome parts of the car are baking hot from the sun.From the entry baking hot
  • I've got to get out of this coat! I'm baking hot!From the entry baking hot
  • When you finish baking off the first batch, start the second.From the entry bake off
  • Six pounds of batter will bake off to three pounds of prepared product.From the entry bake off
  • I love the cookies which mama bakes me every week.From the entry mama
  • Hold off (on) baking until I get there.From the entry hold off
  • I’m going to do some baking this afternoon.From the entry baking
  • She's mad on the baking these days.From the entry mad
  • Blind bake your pie case for fifteen minutes, then add the filling. This will help avoid a “soggy bottom”.From the entry blind
  • Don't forget to tie up your hair before you bake.From the entry tie up
  • I made a sponge cake the other day. It was a disaster: I forgot the baking powder! It didn't rise!From the entry sponge cake
  • The prepping of this salad will seem easy in comparison with the cooking and baking we've been doing.From the entry prepping
  • Place the ingredients in a margarined baking tray.From the entry margarined
  • Bake the pie in a preheated oven until golden brown.From the entry golden brown
  • I dropped a blueb on the floor while baking but I still picked it up and ate it.From the entry blueb
  • They bought a sack of wheat and a sack of rye with the intent to try their hand at milling and baking.From the entry wheat
  • A sheet of that new silicon stuff is as good as a sheet of tinfoil to keep food from sticking in the baking pan.From the entry sheet

Meaning of bake

  1. verb To cook (something) in an oven (for someone).
  2. verb To be cooked in an oven.
  3. verb To regularly prepare baked goods.

Full definition of bake

Questions about bake in a sentence

How do you use bake in a sentence?
Bake is used as a verb and noun. For example: “I baked a delicious cherry pie.”
What is a short sentence with bake?
“(Let's bake tonight.)”
What does bake mean?
Bake means to cook (something) in an oven (for someone).

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bake (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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