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  • Your loaf looks great, and not at all overbrown to me.

    Just Like Ali Baba Sarah 2009

  • Cook just until the bottom is firm and golden; do not overbrown.

    One Big Table Molly O’Neill 2010

  • She was like the moon when at fullest on its fourteenth night, and was clad in a garment of blue, with a veil of green, overbrown flower-white that all wits amazed and those of understanding amated. —

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • The sweet potato fries, however, are excellent — crispity-crunchity and not overbrown as sweet potato fries tend to be — and perhaps themselves worth the trip.

    Archive 2008-03-01 Vanessa 2008

  • It should not overbrown in the time it is in the oven.

    nutmeg-maple cream pie | smitten kitchen 2007

  • In a conventional oven a sweet honey-mustard basting sauce could overbrown.

    The Perdue Chicken Cookbook Mitzi Perdue

  • The Neapolitan recognized that there was beauty of a kind given to the girl -- in her hair, red as the reddest sunset, in her candid eyes, in the strong, supple body, overbrown from mountain light and mountain air for Lycabetta's fancy.

    The Proud Prince 1898

  • She was like the moon when at fullest on its fourteenth night, and was clad in a garment of blue, with a veil of green, overbrown flower-white that all wits amazed and those of understanding amated.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • The trick is to keep the flame pulled back a little from what you're browning and keep it moving continuously so you don't overbrown a spot.

    The Seattle Times 2011

  • If the turkey begins to overbrown, cover it loosely with aluminum foil.

    unknown title 2009

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