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Example sentences for: grilling

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The picture running with the NYT story makes it look as if Tamraz was feeling the tremendous pressure of a prosecutorial grilling.
Time excerpts Bill Gates' Slate diary about his Senate grilling.
Judging by today's responses, the network's lineup would seem to consist of Peter Jennings, Sam Donaldson, Ted Koppel, and Barbara Walters, grilling Ellen DeGeneres about her lesbianism while a bare-assed Regis Philbin dispenses cash and prizes.
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.
The parts that haven't, but that Toobin will now post, seem to consist largely of defense lawyers grilling Jones on the details of her private sex life.