How to Use baker's dozen in a Sentence

baker's dozen

noun
  • Step up to the barre for a baker's dozen of dreamy dance flicks.
    — EW.com, 21 May 2024
  • Our grocery list is a baker's dozen of items that include a mix of store brands and national brands.
    — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 25 Jan. 2022
  • Rose Foods also sells retail items like a baker's dozen of bagels and tubs of cream cheese for people to take home with them.
    — Kate Kassin, Bon Appétit, 27 June 2023
  • For now, this kind of performance is extremely rare, limited to less than a baker's dozen of owners.
    — Brendan McAleer, Car and Driver, 18 Aug. 2023
  • And Escape offers a full baker's dozen of color options that range from explosively retro to three shades of gray.
    — New Atlas, 2 Dec. 2025
  • The employee at the counter recommended getting a baker's dozen and that was a big mistake, as one bite of the molten ball of fried cookie was enough.
    — Andi Berlin, The Arizona Republic, 25 Aug. 2022
  • The 13-track album tells the stories of a baker's dozen of sleepless nights scattered throughout Swift's life.
    — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 29 Aug. 2022
  • And to carry you into the weekend, the franchise released this quick video of the most memorable quotes from the baker's dozen of Trek films.
    — Andrew Moseman, Popular Mechanics, 9 Sep. 2016
  • Then, giant curtains are flung over it, completely obscuring the baker's dozen of audience members.
    — Hanna Krueger, NOLA.com, 18 Apr. 2018
  • The baker's dozen invited to the event on Wednesday represents a dramatic increase from last season.
    — Tony Catalina, Austin American Statesman, 11 Feb. 2026
  • By hiring more than a baker's dozen bodyguards to watch over his Palo Alto pad, Zuck's bound to ruffle more than a few neighbors' feathers.
    — Kim Lachance Shandrow, ELLE Decor, 17 Feb. 2016
  • After a 6-7 start in the first baker's dozen of games, the defending champions look more mortal than many prognosticated in the early spring.
    — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 13 Apr. 2023
  • So, yes, that doesn't bode well for the baker's dozen of other declared Democratic and Republican candidates.
    — Jim Sergent, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2023
  • In a city filled with one boulangerie after another, Nadal tries for a baker's dozen of French Open titles in 2020.
    — Ravi Ubha, CNN, 9 June 2019
  • Arizona voters considered a baker's dozen ballot measures this year that have broad effect, from limiting a governor's powers to revamping how citizen groups put questions on the ballot.
    — Stacey Barchenger, The Arizona Republic, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Elizabeth costarred with Tony Shalhoub and Matthew Lillard in the movie, stylized as Thir13en Ghosts, as a woman who gets trapped in a home with a baker's dozen ghosts alongside a team of ghost hunters.
    — Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 5 June 2026

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