Parboil used in a sentence

Parboil in a sentence as a verb

While the meat bits brown in a pan, parboil the potatoes.

Can you tell the difference if I lightly parboil asparagus, or throw it on the grill until it is blackened?

Pretty much everyone parboils potatoes before roasting them in the oven.

If the water can be kept vigorously boiling, it's usually only necessary to parboil the potatoes for a few minutes: just enough to soften the outer 5mm or so.

The room has a concrete slab floor, corrugated steel walls separating it from the neighboring units and - this is a mark of distinction separating it from the neighboring units - a roll-up steel door that faces northwest, giving them a few red rays at times like this, when the sun is setting over LAX. But there are worse places to live… slum housing, 5-by-10s and 10-by-10s where Yanoama tribespersons cook beans and parboil fistfuls of coca leaves over heaps of burning lottery tickets.