The phrase "a warm toast" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a heartfelt or friendly speech made in honor of someone, typically during a celebration or gathering.
Example: "During the wedding reception, the best man gave a warm toast to the happy couple, sharing fond memories and well wishes."
Alternatives: "a heartfelt toast" or "a friendly toast".
Rupert offered a warm toast that was written, like many of his speeches, by Brooks, who was treated by him as a daughter and by Elisabeth and James as a sister.
Hughes gave a warm toast to Foer, declaring, according to someone who was there, that their "friendship was a deep and meaningful thing to him" and that the two men "were going to be intellectual partners moving into the next decade".
For a Vietnamese-inspired cold steak and rice noodle salad I had made a few weeks earlier, I used fish sauce and chilies to play up the beefy nuances while peanuts added texture and a warm, toasted flavor.
This resource from Calm for Kids introduces three calming poses that can be practised in class – diamond, mouse and the do-nothing doll – explained in child-friendly language such as "imagine the floor is a piece of warm toast and you are a little ball of butter, gently melting over it".
Now if I could only get past the weird baby creatures in Dead Space 2 without screaming obscenities, waking up my children and prompting them to ask what, exactly, a "c*nting f**kb**tard on warm toast" is.
The terrine of foie gras arrives as a hefty slab, rosy at the center, served with warm toast in a folded napkin.
But for me it will always be a song that smells of warm toast and hot coffee, that brings a picture of the world viewed from three feet high.
Still, here's a warm holiday toast to El Cheapo Man — the bubbly is prosecco, not Champagne — $7.95 a pop at budgetbottle.com, and actually pretty tasty.
The New York Post offered a "warm typewriter toast": "You would not want us to pretend that we always love you but as Americans and as journalists we can hardly imagine living without you".
Also a pale bath of melting pecorino studded with warm hazelnuts, pepperoncini and a drizzle of acacia honey that, spread on warm toast, has pretty much the same effect squared.
This chunky, rough pâté is best served a little cooler than room temperature and smeared on warm toast.
