broil
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If you’d like extra color, broil for 2 to 3 minutes at the end, watching carefully.
From Salon ● Mar. 11, 2026
An early-season heat wave will broil much of inland California this week, with highs set to top 100 from the Antelope Valley to the Sacramento Valley.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2024
The dough is slightly blistered but stretchy, and turning the oven on broil for the last two minutes of the bake ensures the cheese is perfectly blistered.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 28, 2023
Capital Beijing is expected to broil in 37-39°C temperatures until Saturday, and the Tianjin Meteorological Observatory raised its warning level to red with temperatures expected to hit 40°C.
From Reuters ● Jun. 16, 2023
But when we stepped off the airplane and staggered out into the field with our bags, the Congolese people surrounded us-—Lordy!—in a chanting broil.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
Vocabulary lists containing broil
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