- present participle of roast.
roasting
Americanadjective
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used or suitable to roast.
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exceedingly hot; scorching.
a roasting July.
noun
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roastings
plural
adjective
noun
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Etymology
Origin of roasting
1350–1400; Middle English (gerund); see roast, -ing 1, -ing 2
Example Sentences
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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
Another reason to own energy stocks may be to help compensate you for global roasting.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
Much like the players, Berly Nelson felt like he was roasting in the sun at Lumen Field.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026
Hand roasting coffee beans is a slow, careful process.
From BBC ● May 31, 2026
He misses the press of people, the noise and chaos, black Model Ts rattling along the cobblestones, the treacly smell of street vendors’ peanuts roasting in sugar.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
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
Two parrots lived, a sire and son, On roastings from a royal fire.
From Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Elizur Wright
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