- present participle of roast.
roasting
Example Sentences
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It is a roasting hot Saturday in Skegness and 15-year-old Maisy is busily serving and clearing tables at the Seafood Cafe close to the seafront.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 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
Much like the players, Berly Nelson felt like he was roasting in the sun at Lumen Field.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026
Too early for a campfire, and I didn’t figure they were roasting marshmallows.
From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan
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
