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

Instead of cutting up the meat, many persons prefer it dressed whole;—in that case it should be half-roasted before the water, &c. are put to it.

From The Book of Household Management by Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary)

They were half-roasted by the heat, that had been all along increasing, as the black logs burned into red embers.

From The Boy Hunters by Unknown