BROIL in a Sentence

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14 example sentences for BROIL, such as:

1. I have to broil in this hot sun to get them back!
2. The flames bit him, and the hot smoke broiled his skin.
3. Here, you see, we have plenty of salt, and can make a quick broil.
4. Somehow, she had imagined it would remain broiling hot noon forever.
5. In broiling or grilling, the food is cooked directly over a very hot flame.

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 Meanings and Examples of BROIL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
broil
 v.  cook by direct exposure to heat over fire; subject to great heat; be subjected to the action of heat; be greatly heated
Classic Sentence:
1  Here, you see, we have plenty of salt, and can make a quick broil.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 6
2  Away with this prating dotard," said Front-de Boeuf, "lock him up in the chapel, to tell his beads till the broil be over.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
3  They had cut the railroad four miles below the town, but they had been beaten off by the Confederate cavalry; and the engineering corps, sweating in the broiling sun, had repaired the line.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
4  Never anything like these stinking, bleeding bodies broiling under the glaring sun.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
5  Somehow, she had imagined it would remain broiling hot noon forever.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
6  It would be hours before she finished her journey under the broiling September sun.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
7  The next day was broiling, almost the last, certainly the warmest, of the summer.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
8  It is out of the idolatrous dotings of the old Egyptians upon broiled ibis and roasted river horse, that you see the mummies of those creatures in their huge bake-houses the pyramids.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1. Loomings.
9  He stirred the smoldering ashes till the broiled fowl began to sizzle afresh.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XIII
10  The flames bit him, and the hot smoke broiled his skin.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
11  He was so polite as to stop at a public-house, expressly on our account, and entertain us with broiled mutton and beer.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 10. I BECOME NEGLECTED, AND AM PROVIDED FOR
12  But this nobleman having in two years' time been broke upon the wheel along with thirty more Boyards for some broils at court, I profited by that event; I fled.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XII
Example Sentence:
1  I have to broil in this hot sun to get them back!
2  In broiling or grilling, the food is cooked directly over a very hot flame.