Sentence examples for given a roasting from inspiring English sources

There was a match, at the Wanderers several winters ago, where on a quick pitch with some bounce he was given a roasting by the South African pacemen, and a glimpse was given through a small window into the future.

Prof Rick Trainor, vice-chancellor of King's College London and president of Universities UK, said they had been given a roasting by the committee and that universities and Hefce should act together against a "sustained campaign of scepticism" by MPs and others.

The US bishops – a group significantly more conservative than America's Catholic laity – had hoped that he would give a roasting to Obamacare for including contraception, and expected him to lambast the US courts for approving gay marriage.

Early in 1982, "someone gave a roast of me," he said.

There, unlike at the Kennedy Center Honors, the president has typically played a bigger role in the evening's proceedings by giving a roast of himself, so Trump's decision to skip it has significantly altered the annual confab.

The stations said he had been given a verbal roasting by the ISI chief, General Shuja Pasha.

I eat pretty well on tour, although we often joke that the only way we know what day it is is if we are given a Sunday roast.

Ironically, a bevy of America's sweethearts both past and present are among the many celebrities given a humorous roast in "Celebrity Autobiography," the laugh-out-loud, endearingly kitschy show currently playing at New York's Triad Theatre.

Coalition critics could perhaps be forgiven for feasting on the delicious sight of the chancellor, George Osborne, being given a right old roasting over his admission that he cannot remember the last time he bought a pasty in Greggs.

On the other hand, oxide ores and concentrates can be given a controlled reducing roast in order to produce a calcine containing a reduced metal that will dissolve easily in the leaching solution.

For an elevated rendition of classic chicken with mashed potatoes and green beans (see Stroud's for the benchmark), a pair of boneless chicken breasts were rendered juicy and golden by skillful skillet roasting, given a wild-mushroom sauce and served with haricots verts and wonderfully seasoned garlic-chive mashed Yukon gold potatoes with bacon.