Mr. Hendersen liked to broil chicken for dinner.    From LearnThat.org. 

broil fish.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

My sense is that the word broil has gone out of fashion because it's associated with bad home cooking using the oven.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: BROIL/GRILL.] Reference

Hmm. There was a "broil" setting on the oven knob.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cinderella At The Ball]

I don't have any very clear idea of what the verb "broil" means.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: BROIL/GRILL.] Reference

I can't remember ever seeing the term 'broil' in a British cookery book.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: BROIL/GRILL.] Reference

However, I have never ever heard 'broil' used in the sense GrahamT gives.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: BROIL/GRILL.] Reference

Turning the oven to its "broil" function starts up a roaring fire close to the broiler.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-12-01] Reference

In five years of living and cooking in England, I have never ever found 'broil' used in the sense GrahamT gives.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: BROIL/GRILL.] Reference

NAMCO BANDAI America Inc., turns the heat up to "broil" as they announce.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Collectible Prepaid Cards for Dragonica Online Coming to Retail] Reference

And I learned to broil asparagus along with scallions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 10 Best Cookbooks Of 2008] Reference

Take one pound of round steak and broil it slightly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol 2 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference

Remove; rub or brush the moisture over the chicken, and broil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Breakfast Dainties] Reference

Season with oil, salt and pepper, broil it and cut in thin slices.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Italian Cook Book The Art of Eating Well] Reference

Thus you may broil any hanch of venison, and serve it with gravy only.    From Wordnik.com.  [The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery] Reference

To lose weight, poach, steam, roast, broil or grill everything you cook.    From Wordnik.com.  [LIVESTRONG.COM: 7 Healthy Cooking Secrets] Reference

Joseph Howe, in alluding to the riot, took the Scotch side of the broil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses] Reference

Then did you catch a fine lot of trout and broil them before a camp-fire?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Day at the County Fair] Reference

When you're cooking: • Stay in the kitchen whenever you fry or broil food.    From Wordnik.com.  [During Fire Prevention Week 2009, get smart about kitchen fires] Reference

Or broil them with butter, and serve them with beaten butter, and juyce of orange.    From Wordnik.com.  [The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery] Reference

Split and broil Veribest Vienna Style Sausage and place between hot buttered toast.    From Wordnik.com.  [Armour's Monthly Cook Book, Volume 2, No. 12, October 1913 A Monthly Magazine of Household Interest] Reference

The last slice I broil and serve with poached eggs; the baked ham, makes sandwiches.    From Wordnik.com.  [Armour's Monthly Cook Book, Volume 2, No. 12, October 1913 A Monthly Magazine of Household Interest] Reference

Heat and grease a gridiron, broil a breast of lamb first on one side, then on the other.    From Wordnik.com.  [365 Luncheon Dishes A Luncheon Dish for Every Day in the Year] Reference

They told substantially the same story, and all swore that I was engaged in an angry broil with.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance Of Giovanni Calvotti From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.)] Reference

As thus you may also broil or toast the sweet-breads when they are new, and serve them with gravy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery] Reference

"Make us a pan of biscuit, Budge; and I'll fry some potatoes and broil the steak," volunteered Jim.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference

And when they get robins and blackbirds they're so much bigger they can broil 'em over their fires.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bobbsey Twins on Blueberry Island] Reference

Turn the heat up to broil, and cook for another few minutes, until the breadcrumbs are nicely browned.    From Wordnik.com.  [Big Girls, Small Kitchen: Updated Tuna Casserole: Fewer Cans, More Flavor] Reference

Marinate, broil, fry and bake Soals according as you do Carps, as you may see in the thirteenth Section.    From Wordnik.com.  [The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery] Reference

Or broil it in butter and vinegar with herbs as above-said, and make sauce with beaten butter and vinegar.    From Wordnik.com.  [The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery] Reference

To broil successfully a very clear fire is required, and it should be made up some time before it is wanted.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken] Reference

Kinsmen of both parties were involved; and though the broil was temporarily settled, another soon sprang up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series] Reference

Then turn them and put a small piece of butter in the middle of each, and broil for about ten minutes longer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mushrooms: how to grow them a practical treatise on mushroom culture for profit and pleasure] Reference

We comment on the lack of blood or the lack of oil or boils orLondon broil at the restaurant and I'm confused.    From Wordnik.com.  [Every time we kiss, my hair falls out] Reference

An abstract fry -- let me here record it -- suits me passing well; yet I like not the concrete and personal broil.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference

= -- Select a steak cut from the best part of the sirloin; trim it neatly; rub a little oil over it, and broil over.    From Wordnik.com.  [Breakfast Dainties] Reference

Paul insisted that Mr. Weston should accept one of his fine salmon to broil for their midday meal, and then Rebby exclaimed.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Little Maid of Old Maine] Reference