baking

present participle of bake

Example Sentences

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Verb
  • The production features design by Tom Pye, puppetry design and direction by Basil Twist, costumes by Kimie Nakano, lighting by Jessica Hung Han Yun, and movement by You-Ri Yamanaka.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The livestreamed event included the singer briefly turning off the lights in the area and then re-lighting them to reveal the album’s cover art projected onto a building.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 21 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • So Hernandez was allowed to compete as a girl, become a national spectacle, and then play out a final high school volleyball season, igniting protests from opponents and teammates alike.
    Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 23 Oct. 2025
  • But perhaps more importantly, Cork Tree helped the band become the therapists pumping through the speakers of a whole generation of skinny jean-wearing teens, igniting the pop-punk and emo music scene into a blazing force for the masses.
    Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 22 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • It's accessed by sliding door and contains a shower and a sink, plus a choice of flushing, composting or incinerating toilet.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 17 Oct. 2025
  • There's even an incinerating toilet to handle waste.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 7 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • There's a lot of kindling around, and there's a lot of like newspapers that can catch on fire.
    Keith Sharon, Nashville Tennessean, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Science builds on prior insights, and a handy repository of past advances serves as kindling for future discoveries.
    Evan Bush, NBC news, 15 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Visiting the shrine as prime minister would risk inflaming anger in the region.
    Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Hollywood these days feels really fearful of enflaming conservative ire.
    David Amsden, Rolling Stone, 7 Oct. 2025
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“Baking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/baking. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.

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