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grilled (grild)

adjective

  1. having a grille
  2. cooked on a grill or gridiron; broiled

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grilled Usage Examples

Preposition: over

  • charcoal: Large Alexandrian prawns are equally delicate, particularly grilled over charcoal.

Modifies a noun

  • sardine: And of course my three grilled sardines with a healthy wedge of lemon and side salad of crisp tho slightly tired salad vegetables.

Modifying Another Word

  • lightly: I followed this with a brace of lightly grilled seabass in a delicate crab sauce ( £ 12.50 ) topped with sun-dried tomato.

Used with adjective complement

  • get: Alan McGee Gets Grilled in a City Life Interview!

Preposition: with

  • garlic: The bitter leaves are excellent raw, or grilled with garlic, olive oil and a squirt of lemon.

Preposition: by

  • panel: In the second round we had to come up with program ideas, then be grilled by a panel of TV executives.
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