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
But on sniffing the well-roasted fowl they began to suspect a trick.
From Blue Ridge Country by Erskine Caldwell
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
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 Adam White
