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Example sentences for: grilling

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He ate his lunch ("hearty vegetable soup"--thanks WP ) surrounded by three federal bodyguards, just a few tables over from the unguarded prosecutors who had been grilling him.
In many cases, the author will visit the referee's home institution for a semester or a year to be available for periodic grilling.
Time excerpts Bill Gates' Slate diary about his Senate grilling.
On the Today show, Hersh endured a two-day grilling that seemed like payback for the time and money NBC had wasted on a documentary it abandoned because of suspicions about the forged papers.
But Chatterbox is at a loss to explain how anyone but a pair of formerly high-ranking newspaper executives could conceive of interviewing McPherson without grilling him about his representation of the tobacco industry, which in 1997 transformed McPherson's law firm, Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson and Hand, into a gaudy lobbying powerhouse (at least in terms of billable hours).