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  • verb Present participle of cake.

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Examples

  • Because something inside us compels us down that road, two wheels licking up the asphalt, pipes barking into the wind, sweat blowing off before it does its job, grease caking in our hands and elbows and knees.

    The Riddle of Steel Jason W. Stuart 2011

  • Follow it with new safety restrictions on subsurface salt mining, new environmental regulations on saltwater evaporators, prohibitions on adulterating it with non-caking agents — there are lots of tools available.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » The FDA to Target Salt 2010

  • The mud caking the street Jalan Sarekei off Jalan Pahang, near Titiwangsa Monorail station in Kuala Lumpur was the color of old boots, and the tepid flow of the Klang reminded me of a plumbing stoppage.

    Zac Hill: The Intimacy Gap Zac Hill 2011

  • Whomever he thought was caking up that week, could and would get it.

    Deep Throat Diva Cairo 2011

  • Whomever he thought was caking up that week, could and would get it.

    Deep Throat Diva Cairo 2011

  • The mud caking the street Jalan Sarekei off Jalan Pahang, near Titiwangsa Monorail station in Kuala Lumpur was the color of old boots, and the tepid flow of the Klang reminded me of a plumbing stoppage.

    Zac Hill: The Intimacy Gap Zac Hill 2011

  • Tiny slivers of soap prevent dirt from caking under your nails and wash out cleanly.

    How to use soap in the garden 2010

  • I could see his eyes searching my face for recognition, as he tried to blink away the dried blood caking his eyes: a reminder of the pistol whipping I'd given him outside the Sobeys on Queen St. just before I folded him into the back of my car.

    Larry Seamus Bellamy 2011

  • Fathers who obliged offspring or perhaps merely themselves by donning capes or caking their faces in full Joker make-up were rewarded with a two-hour extravaganza carefully crafted to delight small boys and raise frequent smiles and cheers from the grown-ups.

    Batman – Live - review 2011

  • Whomever he thought was caking up that week, could and would get it.

    Deep Throat Diva Cairo 2011

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