BAKE in a Sentence

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For BAKE, below is one of 48 sentences:
The hay was all got in; the fields round Thornfield were green and shorn; the roads white and baked; the trees were in their dark prime.

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 Meanings and Examples of BAKE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
bake
 v.  prepare, as food, by cooking in a dry heat, either in an oven or under coals, or on heated stone or metal
Classic Sentence: (35 in 3 pages)
1  Mrs. Merriwether said that when she made a little more money she was going to open a bake shop downtown.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
2  When she took the paste out to bake it, she left smears of dough sticking to the sides of the measure, put the measure on the shelf behind the stove, and let this residue ferment.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IV
3  And once Gretel was inside, she intended to shut the oven and let her bake in it, and then she would eat her, too.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In HANSEL AND GRETEL
4  They make a rude kind of earthen and wooden vessels, and bake the former in the sun.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER IX.
5  Also, bake the pastry to a nice brown on one side, and but lightly on the other.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
6  They make bread for six months at one time; they bake it with dried cow-dung.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS
7  She told with accents of horror how, before Rene Picard came home from the war, Mrs. Merriwether and Maybelle had made ends meet by baking pies and selling them to the Yankee soldiers.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
8  Mrs. Merriwether and her baking and Rene driving the pie wagon.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
9  As I entered the kitchen, I sniffed a pleasant smell of gingerbread baking.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: II
10  I tied my pony and went into the kitchen where Mrs. Shimerda was baking bread, chewing poppy seeds as she worked.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XVII
11  Breakfast was ready when I entered the kitchen, and Yulka was baking griddle-cakes.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: II
12  At last, they were all seated at breakfast, while Mary stood at the stove, baking griddle-cakes, which, as they gained the true exact golden-brown tint of perfection, were transferred quite handily to the table.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
13  One evening, he was sitting, in utter dejection and prostration, by a few decaying brands, where his coarse supper was baking.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
14  She was going to walk five miles across the moor to the cottage, and she was going to help her mother with the washing and do the week's baking and enjoy herself thoroughly.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
15  Her mother had been glad to see her and they had got the baking and washing all out of the way.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
Example Sentence:
1  Brush the aubergines with oil, add salt and pepper, and bake till soft.
2  Cover the pot and bake for an hour.
3  Cover the chicken with silver foil and bake.
4  In some places, people still bake bricks in the sun.
5  I made the icing while the cake was baking.
6  Little old ladies who had relished home baking were a dying breed and the younger generation simply couldn't relate to them.
7  Prick the skin of the potatoes with a fork before baking them.
8  A small, seedless raisin of the Mediterranean region, used chiefly in baking.
9  Tis the voice of the Lobster; I heard him declare; You have baked me too brown, I must sugar my hair.
10  The hay was all got in; the fields round Thornfield were green and shorn; the roads white and baked; the trees were in their dark prime.
11  Max has decided that honey baked ham is better than Subway sandwich.
12  When baked, the loaf is usually thick-crusted and dense and does not color to a dark gold.
13  The soil is baked dry by the fierce heat of the sun.