- present participle of roast.
roasting
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Their itinerary included roasting marshmallows, competing in potato-sack races and building human pyramids.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Turning on the oven quite literally changes the climate of my entire workplace — but roasting summer fruit is one of the few things that makes the sacrifice worthwhile.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026
Another reason to own energy stocks may be to help compensate you for global roasting.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
Hand roasting coffee beans is a slow, careful process.
From BBC ● May 31, 2026
Her skin was damp with sweat at all the places where Beto lay curled against her, roasting her with the heat of his small body.
From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
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
The crushings are then roasted in the ordinary way in a reverberatory furnace and the whole of the roastings are passed through the machine we have just described.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 620, November 19,1887 by Various
