- present participle of roast.
roasting
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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
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
The powder clings beautifully to potatoes before roasting, the dried dairy helping to encourage browning while the herbs perfume every bite.
From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2026
If I hear “Chestnuts roasting on an open fire” one more time, I’m gonna do a Christmas barf.
From "Crash" by Jerry Spinelli
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
