How to Use melee in a Sentence

melee

noun
  • But then a whole melee broke out in this bar.
    — Zack Sharf, Variety, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Williams took his share of shots in the melee as well.
    — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 28 Dec. 2025
  • The girls stay markedly calm in the melee.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2026
  • It’s gone through a melee of bodies.
    — George Caulkin, New York Times, 3 Dec. 2025
  • See a short clip from the melee below.
    — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 9 Aug. 2025
  • There was a bunch of melees on the ice today.
    — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Police vans and garbage bins have been set ablaze in the melee.
    — Jasmine Baehr, Fox News, 30 July 2024
  • Two of the guys in the melee were trying to rob him of his drugs.
    — Kerry Burke, New York Daily News, 11 July 2025
  • Phillips won a royal tug of war, but four men were shot in the melee.
    — Simon Usborne, Town & Country, 18 Jan. 2023
  • The melee fighting is just as good as the clever gunplay.
    — Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 17 June 2026
  • By the end of the melee, eight students and two teachers were killed.
    — Nick Valencia, CNN, 21 May 2018
  • Chur was found at fault for the melee and was kicked out of the tournament.
    — Kevin J. Farmer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Mar. 2026
  • In the melee, all but two of the buttons on his tuxedo shirt popped off.
    — Kathleen Perricone, Entertainment Weekly, 2 June 2026
  • The melee took place in the midst of another kind of war, one not of words.
    — Caroline Fraser, The New York Review of Books, 3 Nov. 2020
  • In the melee that followed, police beat the refugees and fired tear gas at them.
    — Nicolas Niarchos, The New Yorker, 13 June 2019
  • The melee prompted a number of fans to leave the stands and rush the floor as well.
    — Erick Taylor, Arkansas Online, 2 Feb. 2022
  • He was sentenced to 365 days in jail for his part in the melee.
    — Elizabeth Keogh, New York Daily News, 4 Feb. 2025
  • Yet commanders sent them right back into the melee all the same.
    — Thomas Gibbons-Neff, New York Times, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Video showed what appeared to be a melee in the middle of the roadway.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2023
  • The crisis sparked a melee last month on the floor of parliament.
    — Bill Spindle, WSJ, 4 Dec. 2018
  • Scores of young men recorded the melee on their phones while others tried to break up the brawl.
    — Emma Seiwell, New York Daily News, 12 June 2026
  • The Rangers came out of the melee with a power play, but that didn’t lead to a goal.
    — Peter Baugh, The Athletic, 18 Dec. 2024
  • The melee is a mess to sort out, but my guess is that alcohol was involved.
    — Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2023
  • The refs continued to try to stop the melee, which spilled into the crowd.
    — Blake Oestriecher, Forbes.com, 25 Jan. 2026
  • Hutch screams at thugs during a four-on-one melee, and the irony is only flesh-wound deep.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 14 Aug. 2025
  • The melee combat had a parry system, as well.
    — Jordan Minor, PC Magazine, 4 Sep. 2025
  • So, Peachey and his crew zipped up their parkas and wind pants and walked out into the melee.
    — Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 11 Mar. 2025
  • The rare passers-by or tourists caught in the middle of the melees scurried to safety.
    — Time, 17 Oct. 2019
  • Chevy avoided the melee by going four-wide at the top of Turn 1.
    — Edgar Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 30 Aug. 2020
  • In the melee, a Filipino sailor’s thumb got sliced off by a sharp piece of metal.
    — Marites Dañguilan Vitug, Foreign Affairs, 18 Sep. 2024

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