Example Sentences

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It’s there in the oysters cooked over the flames and finished with a trickle of scallion oil, and in the exquisitely well-roasted chicken served with jus that tastes of pickled chiles and lime leaves.

From New York Times • Jul. 6, 2021

The “chunky,” usually gray rock pigeon has pointed wings, a black bill with white base, red eyes and eye rings, and feet the color of a well-roasted slab of sockeye.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 14, 2021

Many housewives think it an improvement, and use either the under-cut of a well-roasted surloin of beef or a boiled fresh ox-tongue for the purpose.

From Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 by Burroughs, Barkham

The turkeys were picked off the tall trees, as they roosted after night, by rifle shots, and no game I ever fed on can exceed the rich flavor of a well-roasted, fat wild turkey.

From The Humors of Falconbridge A Collection of Humorous and Every Day Scenes by Falconbridge

In China, a well-roasted pup, of any variety of the very variable Canis familiaris, is a dainty dish.

From Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men. by White, Adam