Roasting

//ˈɹəʊstɪŋ//

"Roasting" in a Sentence (15 examples)

He is roasting coffee beans.

You know, the ones where you skewer some marshmallows and roast them. I don't know what they're called but they're really good. Let's try roasting some at my place sometime, too.

The meat is roasting.

It's roasting in this room.

The old man sat cosily by his warm stove. The fire was blazing brightly and some apples were roasting in front of it.

He's roasting a tasty chicken.

We sat around the campfire roasting marshmallows.

Tom is roasting coffee beans.

We sat around the campfire, roasting marshmallows and singing songs.

The mushrooms look good for roasting.

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Broiling is but another way of roasting those cuts of meat which have a broad, flat surface such as steaks, chops, or cutlets.

The day started out cool, but by noon it was roasting.

These elements are expelled more completely by a large number of comparatively incomplete roastings (alternated, of course, with smeltings) than by a smaller number of extremely thorough roastings[…]

There were signs of recent roastings and fryings, and Frank explained he’d been eating pretty well, making his way through frozen stocks from the shop.

My boss gave me a roasting for last month's sales figures.

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