How to Use meld in a Sentence

meld

1 of 2 verb
  • The teams also used music to help meld the two worlds.
    — Jana Pollack, Parents, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Ward 4 election Co-ops to meld?
    — Twin Cities, 13 Aug. 2025
  • And so, how do those time periods meld, and what does that look like?
    — Mike Miller, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Dec. 2025
  • Hustling along, driver melds with the car.
    — Mark Ewing, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Then it’s all popped back into the oven for the flavors to meld and warm again.
    — Jenn Harriscolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2022
  • Crouched, the fishers meld into the fluid scene, as if rocks in the marsh.
    — Angelica Aboulhosn, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Baseman’s work melds the worlds of fine art and toymaking.
    — Iris Kwok may 12, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2026
  • The day would end up melding politics and megachurch.
    — Antonia Hitchens, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • So now more to work with, more to mold, more to meld, all as the clock winds down and the challenges mount.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Those tracks, for the most part, meld seamlessly with the story.
    — Rod Stafford Hagwood, Sun Sentinel, 12 Mar. 2026
  • It's topped with pink-gold chrome, which helps the colors meld even more seamlessly.
    — Kara Jillian Brown, InStyle, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Make it the night before so that the fruit flavors can meld together.
    — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 23 May 2026
  • The themes of the rehearsals meld with the life and memories the women share.
    — Callum McLennan, Variety, 21 Feb. 2023
  • To form a Chow meld the tile has to be discarded by the player to your left.
    — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2022
  • Once assembled, allow the slaw to rest for at least an hour so the flavors can meld.
    — Lynda Balslev, Mercury News, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Simmer for a minute to let everything meld and thicken the sauce.
    — Maggie Meyer Glisan, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Feb. 2026
  • Only got better with more time to meld, and the mix of tangy and savory flavors rocked.
    — Jenna Sims, Southern Living, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Then comes the tomato sauce and cheese before a trip to the oven for the components to meld.
    — The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Dec. 2025
  • Each slice was chock-full of toppings that melded well together.
    — David Wysong, The Enquirer, 2 June 2023
  • The tomato melds seamlessly with the pole beans and a touch of spice for a subtly smoky side dish.
    — Jenna Sims, Southern Living, 28 June 2026
  • Is that ever a concern in melding the two timelines?
    — Savannah Walsh, Vanity Fair, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Paton said last week that their styles have melded together well.
    — Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Now Wood was determined to meld the mission of truth-telling with the joy of joke-telling.
    — Wesley Lowery, Washington Post, 1 May 2023
  • If time allows, let the spinach dip sit in the fridge two or three hours so the flavors can really meld.
    — Josh Miller, Southern Living, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Refrigerate the slaw for at least one hour to allow the flavors to meld.
    — Lynda Balslev, Mercury News, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Refrigerate for at least 2 hours (or up to overnight) to let the flavors meld.
    — John Kell, Forbes.com, 19 May 2026
  • Gently simmer for a few minutes longer to allow the flavors to meld.
    — Gretchen McKay, Twin Cities, 25 Feb. 2026
  • The flavors will meld together and make the dish taste even better after just a few hours.
    — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 11 July 2023
  • The issues always have to meld with the emotional lives of the people.
    — Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Chili tastes even better the next day after the flavors have had some time to meld together.
    — Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 25 Aug. 2023

meld

2 of 2 noun
  • Right, there is no more mind meld, which had more or less been the case.
    — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
  • This is such a mind meld of me and so many other people.
    — Nic Juarez, Vulture, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Describe the brain-meld of you, Skrillex, and Xavier.
    — Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Ballet-slipper pink melds into an airy white tip with ease.
    — Amanda Le, InStyle, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Years later, the two share a unique mind-meld on the 8-3 Lions team.
    — Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2022
  • This fragrance queues in on vanilla, saffron, almond, and suede leather meld in the air.
    — Cassell Ferere, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2021
  • Silky meld of bright acidity and young red fruit—raspberries.
    — Tom Mullen, Forbes, 22 May 2022
  • The trick with working with celebrities and their stylists is all in the mind meld, explains Dan.
    — Louis Pisano, Harper's BAZAAR, 12 Jan. 2021
  • Kaan kaan wu, with its motley of melds, is where these two tiles from different suits can be used in a clean-sweeping hand.
    — Rudy Lee, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Each is a meld pun that humorously joins the beginning of one word with the end of another.
    — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Dec. 2020
  • Alwyn said the musical mind-meld was never the official plan.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 2 May 2022
  • With a heart of cedarwood and ambroxan, the spicy, warming scent melds notes of apple brandy with rum, vanilla, and moss.
    — Jenny Berg, Allure, 9 Dec. 2025
  • Wednesday’s sound is a rollicking meld of alternative country and noise rock.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The bottom half is a meld of raspberry, pistachio, lavender, and coconut.
    — Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
  • The buttery flakes from the croissant meld with the cheddar cheese, dissolving to reveal equally tender beef.
    — Ximena N. Beltran Quan Kiu, Bon Appétit, 16 June 2023
  • This weightless multitasker adds a hint of radiance to the skin—as a primer below foundation or simply on its own. Concealer for Women Over 50 The best concealers for women over 50 meld hydrating ingredients with actives, such as peptides, for anti-aging benefits.
    — Lauren Valenti, Vogue, 27 Mar. 2019
  • When asked later about their practically wordless mind-meld on set, Anthony just laughs.
    — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 3 Nov. 2022
  • That this album’s smooth meld of dance punk, disco, rap, and R&B never halts itself to drive its message home is crucial.
    — Pitchfork, 2 Dec. 2025
  • Cyborg ontology is the brain-meld between self and computerized leg.
    — The Cyborg Jillian Weise, Wired, 21 Dec. 2021
  • Even its aesthetics contribute to its confusing meld of genres and approaches.
    — Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 20 Mar. 2025
  • The conflict is a meld of small confrontations often at Ukrainian checkpoints, tit-for-tat artillery shelling and moments of heavy street battles.
    — Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2022
  • This meld of ceramic and luminescent material gave the watch its name, Ceralume.
    — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 27 May 2026
  • Four Days in June is another disarmingly beautiful meld of styles, and also a surprising left turn for the duo.
    — Zach Schonfeld, Pitchfork, 18 June 2026
  • Pusha is similarly proud of his work with Williams on this album, their creative mind-meld still serving up new rewards after nearly 30 years.
    — Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 12 Oct. 2022
  • The establishment quickly becomes a site of celebration, where music and dance meld in an embrace of artistry, culture and history.
    — Robert Lang, Deadline, 18 Dec. 2025
  • Crisp acidity, easy drinking, somewhat linear; chewy and attractive tannin/acidity meld on the finish.
    — Tom Mullen, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2025
  • Dunkin’s signature espresso melds with a mocha swirl and raspberry flavoring, and the drink is topped off with dreamy Chocolate Cold Foam.
    — Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Jan. 2026
  • And either way, the technological advances necessary to enable that kind of high-bandwidth brain-computer mind-meld are also years, if not decades, away.
    — Jonathan Vanian, Fortune, 7 July 2022
  • Urgent percussion, brash guitars and Wetzel’s commanding vocal meld mightily on this new track.
    — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The golden crust relies on ground cassava versus breadcrumbs for its crunch; a topping of fontina cheese and tomato sauce slips berbere, the warm Ethiopian spice blend, into the meld.
    — Washington Post, 18 May 2022

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