MELT in a Sentence

Learn MELT from example sentences, some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

For MELT, below is one of 129 sentences:
She seized a live horse-shoe by the tail, and made prize of several five-fingers, and laid out a jelly-fish to melt in the warm sun.

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 Meanings and Examples of MELT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
melt
 v.  changed from a solid to a liquid state especially by the application of heat
Classic Sentence: (110 in 8 pages)
1  The iron heavens seemed to melt and rain down sweetness.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
2  She seemed to melt against him in her terror, and he caught her in his arms, held her fast there, felt her lashes beat his cheek like netted butterflies.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
3  Her body seemed to melt into his and, for a timeless time, they stood fused together as his lips took hers hungrily as if he could never have enough.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
4  Butter won't melt in my mouth when I'm around him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
5  Butter doesn't melt in your mouth from all I can hear.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
6  I've seen so few people who did not melt at the sight of cash.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
7  They compared her to flakes of snow; as pure, as white, as brilliant, and as liable to melt in the fierce heats of summer, or congeal in the frosts of winter.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 33
8  She's got such a soft heart, it will melt like butter in the sun if anyone looks sentimentlly at her.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY
9  You always find some new way of wheedling money out of me, and, as soon as you have got it, it seems to melt in your hands.
A Doll's House By Henrik Ibsen
Context  Highlight   In ACT I
10  I saw his solemn eye melt with sudden fire, and flicker with resistless emotion.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
11  Every Linton on the face of the earth might melt into nothing before I could consent to forsake Heathcliff.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
12  And now he stared at her so earnestly that I thought the very intensity of his gaze would bring tears into his eyes; but they burned with anguish: they did not melt.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
13  I will melt the stony hearts of your enemies by my tears and prayers.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
14  She seized a live horse-shoe by the tail, and made prize of several five-fingers, and laid out a jelly-fish to melt in the warm sun.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XV. HESTER AND PEARL
15  Before we had taken many paces down the street beyond it, the noise of the city seemed to melt, as if by magic, into a softened distance.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 23. I CORROBORATE Mr. DICK, AND CHOOSE A PROFESSI...
Example Sentence: (19 in 2 pages)
1  The well-known face was there: stern, relentless as ever - there was that peculiar eye which nothing could melt.
2  The well-known face was there: stern, relentless as ever -- there was that peculiar eye which nothing could melt, and the somewhat raised, imperious, despotic eyebrow.
3  These chocolates really melt in your mouth.
4  They are heated to a temperature sufficient to produce a completely fused melt.
5  Some thieves do not even bother to melt down stolen silver for its scrap value.
6  As our climate warms up, the polar ice caps will begin to melt.
7  It was warmer now, and the snow was beginning to melt.
8  Let the cough drop melt in your mouth.
9  The snow soon melted away when the sun came out.
10  Some of the guns were melted down and used to help build a statue.
11  The republic is a melting pot of different nationalities.
12  When the temperature reaches melting point, the metal runs off as a liquid and flows into special modules.
13  The snow showed no sign of melting.
14  I am simply melting with heat.
15  He's such a pseud, with his talk of 'lambent harmonies' and 'melting arpeggios'.