How to Use melting point in a Sentence

melting point

noun
  • But its melting point was too low.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Dec. 2021
  • All were items with a higher melting point than, say, a human body.
    — cincinnati.com, 17 Mar. 2020
  • Brown butter is just butter that's been cooked past the melting point.
    — Katie Bowlby, Country Living, 31 Oct. 2019
  • One is the melting point of cocoa butter.
    — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 13 Feb. 2026
  • The answer was to alloy the low-melting point metals with gold.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Dec. 2021
  • Fahrenheit, hotter than the melting point of glass and aluminum.
    — Matt Yan, BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2022
  • Every day in January has reached at least the melting point this year.
    — Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Lead was used to lower the melting point of glazes and create a durable, brilliant finish.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Better to turn it around and say ice has a melting point, which is zero degrees, no question.
    — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2018
  • Thus, the ice was superheated, or able to stay solid above its melting point.
    — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 24 Sep. 2014
  • The authors write that more metals could be added to the material to raise its melting point.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Jan. 2023
  • Lead is a heavy metal that is soft and malleable, with a relatively low melting point.
    — Laura Schulte, Journal Sentinel, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Because alcohol has a lower melting point than water, this can help thaw some of the frozen gunk.
    — Emily Price, Popular Science, 17 Dec. 2020
  • Water ice that is near the melting point is opaque to radio waves, and so the ice above the lake must be well below freezing.
    — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 25 July 2018
  • Dramatic changes will increase once this melting point between frozen and liquid is hit.
    — Lois Parshley, Anchorage Daily News, 3 May 2022
  • Instead, it's made from niobium, a rare element with a high melting point.
    — Eric Niiler, WIRED, 28 Mar. 2018
  • It’s used in a lot of foods, particularly candy, in part because of its high melting point.
    — al, 31 Mar. 2021
  • Each half has a cartridge that the researchers fill with a low melting point alloy (U-47).
    — Evan Ackerman, IEEE Spectrum, 17 Dec. 2019
  • The team had tuned the melting point and fat clustering exactly right, all without force-feeding.
    — Ari Daniel, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2025
  • The technique takes its name from the fact that, unlike repairs done with welding, the fusing is done far below the melting point.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 2 June 2020
  • That byproduct wax was odorless, colorless, and its melting point could be changed with additives.
    — Wes Siler, Outside Online, 18 Apr. 2018
  • Figure skaters prefer ice set close to the melting point at 25°F for extra grip and control.
    — Brian Resnick, Vox, 31 Jan. 2019
  • Both the casting metal and the temporal bone were maintained above the melting point of the casting metal.
    — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 1 Dec. 2014
  • Tungsten, known for its strength and melting point, is currently a leading candidate.
    — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 12 Nov. 2025
  • The melting point of rock depends on pressure, so hot mantle rock flowing up toward the surface can melt as the pressure drops.
    — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 28 Feb. 2020
  • This means that temperatures on ancient Mars would have struggled to rise above the melting point of water ice.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 2 Dec. 2020
  • Bread cheese is usually served warm (more on this later) and has a high melting point, which turns the texture more silky-smooth while still holding its shape.
    — Katlyn Moncada, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Oct. 2021
  • Ice around the North Pole neared or reached its melting point at a time once considered unthinkably early.
    — Corinne Purtillstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Given its low density and high melting point, the metal is also used to make components for fighter planes.
    — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 17 Apr. 2025
  • Here, ocean water well above the melting point is eroding the base of the ice, erasing it as an ice cube would disappear bobbing in a glass of water.
    — Ted Scambos, The Conversation, 7 June 2022

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