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Example sentences for "toasting"

Lexicographically close words:
toadstools; toady; toast; toasted; toaster; toastmaster; toasts; tobaccer; tobacco; tobacconist
  1. When toasting or broiling is the process, light the oven burner before using, because the work is performed by the heated iron as well as by the gas flame.

  2. Placing the slices firmly in a toaster, or on a fork, or evenly on a rack when toasting by gas.

  3. The heat of the oven burner is also used for toasting and roasting underneath, on the movable rack at (4).

  4. A slight girlish figure in a simple dress of dark blue, her bright hair rippling away into a knot behind, was bending over the grate toasting a piece of bread by the coals.

  5. She's such a bright little thing," father Thorne said to his wife when they were toasting their feet at the fire that night before going to bed.

  6. In the design this circumstance is specially embodied: a party of enthusiasts, assembled in a booth on the course, are toasting the Pretender, whose sun is seen in the distance, falsely depicted as in the ascendant.

  7. But even the Kit-Kat Club in time 'Descended from its high politic flavour, Down to a sentimental toasting savour.

  8. He was a member of the Kitcat Club, whose chief occupation was the proposing and toasting the beauties of the day.

  9. The huge cheese was produced from the awmry, the toasting cakes turned before the fire, and Elspeth was back in her place before the guest had mounted the brae.

  10. The hearth within was clean swept, and the turf on it burned brightly; while the oaten cakes toasting before it diffused a nutty fragrance through the house.

  11. Sit down," said Whitaker, toasting a cracker over the alcohol flame.

  12. Your ward," she said, "is toasting her toes by the sitting-room fire.

  13. They are such a bother with toasting and buttering.

  14. It was only habit that kept the Colonel toasting by the fire before he turned in, for the cabin was as warm to-night as the South in mid-summer.

  15. The salmon, toasting on sticks over wood coals, smelt very appetising.

  16. Now VA had been spending an even duller and more wearisome afternoon than VB, for they had not had the diversion of toasting biscuits.

  17. Toasting biscuits was certainly more entertaining than doing nothing.

  18. The whole primitive village would feast for days afterwards, toasting the flesh on little spits of wood.

  19. These are first made by cooking the grain, then rolling it between rollers, and finally toasting it.

  20. In preparing ready-to-eat wheat cereals for the market, the manufacturers subject the grains to such elaborate methods of cooking, rolling, and toasting that these foods require but very little additional attention before serving.

  21. The toasting of cereals improves their flavor very materially and at the same time increases their digestibility.

  22. If it is not desired to freshen them in this way, biscuits, muffins, and even pieces of corn bread that have become slightly stale may be made delicious by splitting them and then toasting them.

  23. Likewise, a chunk of melting or toasting cheese is essential in the Fritto Misto, the finest mixed grill we know, and it's served up as a separate tidbit with the meats.

  24. It is one of the "toasting cheeses" resembling Lancashire, too, in form and weight.

  25. That discreet hour was on the wane before Mr. Horrobin was to be seen at work with a kettle, a caddy, and a toasting fork.

  26. It was tea time, the kitchen blind was down, the gas was lit; and mother was toasting a muffin for the Foreman Shunter, who was about to go on duty.

  27. It made no difference whether he was toasting muffins, buttering them, or merely eating them; whether he was pouring out tea or conveying it in a blue china cup to his lips, it was all done in a manner to suggest the very poetry of motion.

  28. She put down the toasting fork, but kept the cat in her arms, as she rose to greet Charles Osmond, and her frank and rather child-like manner fascinated him almost as much as it had fascinated Brian.

  29. Erica relinquished a vain search for candle lighters, and took up her former position on the hearth rug with her toasting fork.

  30. Mr. Ravenslee, lounging upon his white bed, was taking languid stock of his purchases when Mrs. Trapes suddenly reappeared, clutching a toasting fork.

  31. Oh, if I was only behind 'im with a toasting fork!

  32. Then with a light and active step she set about toasting the oat cake and the haddie, and making the tea, and setting the little round table.

  33. When she opened the door Mysie, who was stooping over the fire toasting a cake, turned her head; then she lifted herself and dropped a courtesy.

  34. A circular plate of malleable or cast iron, for toasting cakes over the fire, S.

  35. An instrument for toasting bread above the fire, made of pot-metal, S.

  36. They had purchased a barrel of home-brewed ale from a neighbouring tavern, and were toasting Blake at the moment.

  37. When the toasting was done, a man in sober garments rose, lifting his glass with a queer contralto chuckle.

  38. The old man, who was stooping over the fire toasting a piece of bread, looked round as he bantered Oliver thus; and chuckled as if to show that he knew he would still be very glad to get away if he could.

  39. It crackled cosily, toasting their toes outstretched upon the fender-bar, melting their mood to such glowing confidences as they had not exchanged since Mary was in her teens.

  40. The servants were made to feel their lord was well; are at this instant toasting his health and bounty.

  41. After toasting a piece of his compound before an open fire, he found that, while part of it was charred, a rim of India-rubber round the charred portion was elastic still, and even more elastic than pure gum.

  42. We see him roasting it in the ashes and in hot sand, toasting it before a slow fire and before a quick fire, cooking it for one hour and for twenty-four hours, changing the proportions of his compound and mixing them in different ways.


  43. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "toasting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.