Example sentences for: roasted

How can you use “roasted” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • But this was 400 years ago, so they roasted him to death instead.

  • Life Is Beautiful, written and directed by and starring Italian Roberto Benigni (he starred in Down by Law , 1986), has won international acclaim for wedding sentimental, Chaplinesque slapstick to a story that finishes up in a concentration camp with Jews being gassed and roasted.

  • The daughter of the second wife of Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and therefore dubbed a bastard by the papists, the Protestant Elizabeth ascends the throne to find the air still thick with smoke from roasted heretics, a team of skulking Catholics plotting her assassination, and a council of advisers (lords, bishops, sundry old boys) who snigger openly at the prospect of taking orders from a woman.

  • Jon Kyl recently said he was "embarrassed" by the voters' collective decision, he promptly got roasted by most callers to Phoenix's two top-rated talk radio stations and had to issue a clarification.

  • (After packing the Supreme Court, Roosevelt had his little dog Fala roasted on a spit in the Rose Garden, if memory serves.


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