- present participle of roast.
roasting
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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
However, after a long club season residual fatigue is a factor at any tournament, but particularly one played in roasting temperatures.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026
Peach and Aunt Goldie had arrived from Atlanta, and Aunt Goldie was roasting a turkey in the oven in a paper bag—“My secret recipe!”
From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles
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
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
Grok's regular roastings of clueless tech reporters has attracted 150,000 readers.
From Time Magazine Archive
These roastings again are smelted with a variety of fluxes, and in different states of purification, until they are ready for refining.
From A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France by William Duthie
