How do you use the word "bake" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "bake" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "bake": I took a cooking class last spring and learned to bake bread. I like to bake bread and give a loaf to my friend Mie.

Bake Meaning

/beɪk/

Definition, CEFR level A2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

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

verbTo cook using an oven, especially baked goods., To cook (something) in an oven (for someone).

Sentence Examples

I took a cooking class last spring and learned to bake bread.

I like to bake bread and give a loaf to my friend Mie.

Did you really bake the pie by yourself?

CEFR Practice Quiz

She will ____ a chocolate cake for her son's birthday party next Saturday.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

I am going to ____ a delicious chocolate cake for her birthday.

Word Origin & History

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₃g- Proto-Indo-European *bʰh₃g- Proto-Germanic *bakaną Proto-West Germanic *bakan Old English bacan Middle English baken English bake From Middle English baken, from Old English bacan (“to bake”), from Proto-West Germanic *bakan, from Proto-Germanic *bakaną (“to bake”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₃g- (“to roast, bake”). Cognate with West Frisian bakke (“to bake”), Dutch bakken (“to bake”), Low German backen (“to bake”), German backen (“to bake”), Norwegian Bokmål bake (“to bake”), Danish bage (“to bake”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish baka (“to bake”), Ancient Greek φώγω (phṓgō, “roast”, verb).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"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 Security, Airline Industry Consolidation: Hearing, page 36:

"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:

"My dad told me about his days in the Navy: He'd agreed to be a guinea pig in exchange for a shorter enlistment. […] They baked him in the sun." — 2008 October, Davy Rothbart, “How I caught up with dad”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 8, →ISSN, page 112:

"The earth […] is baked with frost." — 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:

"They bake their sides vppon the cold, hard stone." — 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 9:

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