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Example sentences for "roast"

Lexicographically close words:
roareth; roaring; roaringly; roarings; roars; roasted; roaster; roasters; roasting; roasts
  1. So I'm going to suggest to Ed that on Christmas day he roast the onions in a pan or skillet and bake the potatoes in the ashes.

  2. Across these he laid another stick and from it he hung the opossum by a bit of twine which he twisted till it set and kept the roast revolving.

  3. It will burn out presently and meantime its heat will help roast my coal into coke.

  4. So we'll roast the gentleman whole, and I for one volunteer to sit down before him and baste him so that all the juices that belong to him shall be found succulently pervading his muscular structure.

  5. We'll let my little coke oven roast all night and in the morning I'll know a great deal more than I do now.

  6. After a little consultation, it was decided to hang the shoat before the great fire in the new fire place, and roast it whole.

  7. Then he returned to the shadows, but every now and then he came back to the fire to inspect his roast and to set the string twirling anew.

  8. And besides," added Ed, "roast wild shoat is as good cold as hot, or rather better.

  9. There were not many dishes included in it--only some sweet potatoes roasted in the ashes, and some big pones of black ash cake, to go with the great haunch of roast venison.

  10. I move that we roast him whole and invite the soldiers to dine with us!

  11. What we do in making coke is chiefly to expel the gas from the coal and to roast out the sulphur, which seriously interferes with the making of sufficient heat to smelt iron.

  12. These would answer as a sufficient substitute for bread, and as for meat, the company was to dine that day on the cold roast wild boar.

  13. About noon the Doctor volunteered to go and prepare a roast venison dinner, and Jack proceeded to split the tree-lengths into sizes convenient for the riving of the clapboards.

  14. Jack served the roast onions, which were done to a beautiful brown, and Ed himself dished out the potatoes, roasted to a hard crust without and enticing mealiness within.

  15. As to the leaders, death was too light a punishment for them: he would rack them: he would roast them alive.

  16. Roast a large lemon very carefully without burning; when it is thoroughly hot, cut and squeeze into a cup upon three ounces of sugar candy.

  17. Roast a piece of lean mutton, squeeze out the juice and drop it info the ear as hot as it can be borne.

  18. Roast an onion and put into the ear as hot as it can be borne.

  19. They found roast beef and beef-steaks and chickabobboo also, the same as in other places, and altogether there was enough around them here to produce cheerful faces.

  20. The poor fellows enjoyed their interviews with the public to the last, and also their roast beef and beef-steaks and chickabobboo.

  21. That roast of veal was just as good meat as I could find in market; and I don't know what any sensible party would want better than that prune pie.

  22. This crop is consumed by the natives, who roast the cobs.

  23. Only imagine that I here every day see men, who are mountains of roast beef, and only seem just roughly hewn out into the outlines of human form, like the giant-rock at Pratolino!

  24. It was customary at this time for the galleries to call for a ballad called "The Roast Beef of Old England," between the acts, or before or after the play.

  25. In the meantime, I must be looking for a wheen mussels to roast for my breakfast.

  26. On the top of the roast lay three or four thin slices of lemon—particularly if you like the “outside cut.

  27. Stand your roast on two or three thin slices of bacon—not too fat.

  28. Charles Lamb’s essay on roast pig was responsible for a tidal wave of burnt pork that swept over England in the nineteenth century.

  29. Grease well a deep iron skillet with iron top, the pot-roast utensil.

  30. Take a little wire and jab it in the roast after about an hour and twenty minutes and you’ll find out whether it is tender and juicy enough.

  31. To the rich gravy you will find the roast swimming in add a small can of tomato paste, stirring in slowly.

  32. Yet you roasted the poor boy as you would never dare roast a singer with any sort of reputation.

  33. He adored Chopin and loved to roast alive tiny birds on dainty golden grills.

  34. Bill Howland may be able to find me if trouble should come upon you and yours.

  35. He is the sheriff, and he only does his duty, for which I cannot blame him.

  36. They had roast pork for dinner, but it was not so good as civilized hogs produce.

  37. The Blanchita was all ready for them to step on board when they had partaken of roast goose, duck, and chicken at the inn.

  38. An unmistakable odour of roast mutton greeted them as it opened.

  39. Dear me--" But she took off her bonnet and shawl and went down with a cheerful face to help in the distribution of the roast mutton, bright and merry and very fair to look upon, as was her wont.

  40. Invite them to luncheon--to roast mutton and rice pudding, and a dozen children round the table!

  41. All hands has a fancy for roast pork to-day.

  42. Some of the men got intoxicated that afternoon, and I believe two of them had a desperate set to; they sang until they were tired, and for tea had more hot roast pork and fowls.

  43. I found him excellent in a roast or stew and admirably adapted to destroying appetites.

  44. Then we had roast beef and vegetables, followed by veal cutlets.

  45. The food was roast pig and roast duck, cut into bits the size of one's thumb nail, and each piece was to be dipped in the vinegar before going into the mouth.

  46. For breakfast we took tea and boiled eggs, and for dinner we had cabbage soup, roast beef or fowl, and cutlets.

  47. Our diner du voyage consisted of pilmania, roast beef, and partridge with bread, cakes, tea, and quass.

  48. An imperial order abolishing samovars throughout all the Russias, would produce more sorrow and indignation than the expulsion of roast beef from the English bill of fare.

  49. But as the roast meat smelt so good, Gretel thought: 'Something might be wrong, it ought to be tasted!

  50. The peasant made the raven croak again, and said: 'In the second place, he says that there is some roast meat in the tiled stove.

  51. Then the woman served up four different things, roast meat, salad, cakes, and wine.

  52. The two brothers wanted to catch two, and roast them.

  53. The old woman was as good as her word: she never spoke angrily to her, and gave her roast and boiled meats every day.

  54. If these Papists gets into power, and begins to boil and roast instead of hang, what becomes of my work!

  55. Gabriel was in imminent peril, and he knew it; but he preserved a steady silence; and would have done so, if they had been debating whether they should roast him at a slow fire.

  56. Boy," said the old man, "bring on the roast goose.

  57. Come," said the Barmecide, "have another piece of the roast lamb.

  58. Take from John Bull his roast beef, and mode of eating it, and you change the character of the race inside of a century.

  59. I give him roast veal for his luncheon, and he says to me, 'Marietta, this fowl has no wings.

  60. Well, for one example, he calls roast veal a fowl.


  61. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "roast" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    aspic; assail; attack; bake; baked; banter; barbecue; barbecued; baste; blaze; blister; bloom; boil; braise; breast; brew; broil; brown; burn; castigate; chaff; choke; chuck; clod; coddle; coddled; cook; course; cover; crawl; criticize; curried; curry; deride; devil; dish; entree; excoriate; fire; fired; flame; flank; flare; flay; flesh; flicker; flush; forcemeat; fricassee; fried; fry; game; gasp; glow; griddle; grill; hash; haze; heat; heated; jape; jeer; jerky; jest; joint; joke; jolly; kid; knuckle; lash; laugh; loin; meat; melt; mince; needle; pan; pant; parboiled; parch; parody; pillory; plate; poach; prepare; rack; rag; rally; rib; ride; ridicule; roast; round; rump; saddle; saute; scald; scallop; scalloped; scarify; scathe; scorch; scrapple; sear; seared; seethe; shank; shoulder; simmer; sirloin; slash; smolder; smother; spark; steam; stew; stewed; stifle; suffocate; sweat; taunt; tease; tenderloin; toast; trounce; twit; venison


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    roast beef; roast meat; roast them