roasting
adjective
used or suitable to roast.
roastings
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pluralof roasting.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
I say there, old Francis, you're glad enough to have the porter of La Cannebière pay for your roastings at bouillotte all the same.
From The Nabob, Volume 1 by George Burnham Ives
