Example Sentences

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The piano has been moved to the porch, and the menu travels memory lane with a Greek salad, saganaki, half-roasted chicken and Sagaponack steak.

From New York Times • Jun. 30, 2020

The scent of half-roasted coffee beans, normally one of my favorite smells, only stressed me out more.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 9, 2015

Fortunately, his style shines through almost every bar of such half-roasted chestnuts as Never on Sunday and I Left My Heart in San Francisco.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was intensely cold but the men were cheerful as they ate their supper of smoky and half-roasted buffalo meat, bacon, hard-tack, and coffee.

From Molly McDonald A Tale of the Old Frontier by Blumenschein, Ernest L.

When one side was pretty well done he turned the other, and, while that was cooking, cut off a few scraps from the half-roasted side and tried them.

From Lost in the Forest Wandering Will's Adventures in South America by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)