baker's dozen

Example Sentences

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Bagel shops are an easy first stop: most offer catering trays or baker’s dozen boxes.

From Salon • Sep. 15, 2025

There’s much to recommend from the remaining baker’s dozen of shortlisted international features, and voters could go any number of ways in winnowing the list down to five nominees.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 3, 2024

Analyzing the baker's dozen of mummies has only reinforced the team's conviction that the seemingly modest mice ascended the volcanoes without Incan assistance.

From Science Daily • Oct. 23, 2023

Here are a baker’s dozen of Moira Macdonald’s favorite romantic dramas about love, from literary period pieces to contemporary love stories.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 14, 2022

His very own baker’s dozen, he would say, grinning.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi