- present participle of roast.
roasting
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But when I want depth, sweetness, browning and the kind of flavor that tastes like something has been cooking much longer than it actually has, I start by roasting.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026
Last month, two girls in San Diego County were airlifted to a burn center after flames went in their direction while they were roasting marshmallows on a device called Flikr Fire.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Their itinerary included roasting marshmallows, competing in potato-sack races and building human pyramids.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Another reason to own energy stocks may be to help compensate you for global roasting.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
The smell of the roasting pig drifted out and called to everyone, gardeners or not.
From "Seedfolks" by Paul Fleischman
The image, an immediate Instagram hit, subjected him to one of Twitter’s great roastings, and The Cut declared him a “fancy man.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 26, 2020
It is also, in among the drubbings and the roastings, an unlikely good-news story.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 14, 2011
Grok's regular roastings of clueless tech reporters has attracted 150,000 readers.
From Time Magazine Archive
But WPB tried to forestall the inevitable by cutting purchases at the source: roastings were curtailed to 75% of last year's, then 65%.
From Time Magazine Archive
Two parrots lived, a sire and son, On roastings from a royal fire.
From Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Elizur Wright
