Sentence examples for had been roasted from inspiring English sources

Presumably, it had been roasted beyond recognition.

Their batsmen had been roasted, rescued by Brad Haddin and the lower order once more.

The mushy textures of the three components trumped any suggestion that they had been roasted.

The sausage had been roasted over the coals for so long that it was like leather, stuffed into a hunk of bread with a piece of onion.

Finally, steamed duck worked beautifully: soft duck, under a crispy-soft skin of sauce (or sauce of skin: the duck's exterior had been roasted, then puréed).

Bluish little phosphorous flames still flickered around many of them; others had been roasted brown or purple and reduced to a third of their normal size.

I didn't get the impression it had been roasting in its juices very long.

He had been roasting for only a few months, and apparently he had let a batch of Finca Kilimanjaro go too long — roasters measure their recipes in seconds, not minutes.

Ten butterflied pig carcasses — taut bellies gone slack, pink flesh gone cordovan — were in the pits when Mr. Lewis reached for the sheet of wire fencing on which one of the pigs had been roasting since 4 the previous afternoon.

The animal had been roasting only a few feet away, impaled on a cruel spike, cooking slowly and juicily over a bed of hot coals, for the previous ten hours.

She must have been roasted by her own household goods".