roast
verb (used with object)
to bake (meat or other food) uncovered, especially in an oven.
well-roasted
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a word derived from
roast.
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
The only remedy is to feed it on raw or boiled carrots, or well-roasted pea-nuts.
From Harper's Young People, April 6, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various
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
But on sniffing the well-roasted fowl they began to suspect a trick.
From Blue Ridge Country by Erskine Caldwell
