- present participle of grill.
grilling
Example Sentences
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One question he faced during a four-hour grilling: How would he deal with his mother?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
Summer also happens to be peak grilling season.
From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2026
Facing his last weekly grilling from MPs in parliament, Starmer said he wanted to see the next leader of his centre-left Labour party succeed.
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026
Rapport matters, and if you don’t have confidence in this guy when you are done politely grilling him like a hamburger on the Fourth of July, move on to someone who does.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
To be honest, there was another reason I chose the brining and grilling method.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
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