How to Use melting pot in a Sentence

melting pot

noun
  • New York is such a melting pot, all sorts of people, all races and creeds.
    — 1843, 5 June 2020
  • Dubai, on the other hand, is a melting pot, so being here has opened my eyes in so many ways.
    — Danielle Pointdujour, Essence, 20 Mar. 2025
  • And this would be the place to do it — the United States, the world’s melting pot.
    — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 21 June 2018
  • My journey is an exploration to then bring all these things into a melting pot.
    — Ilana Kaplan, People.com, 18 July 2025
  • Oakland has always been a melting pot of so many people, so many cultures.
    — Noël Burgess, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Isn’t a restaurant a melting pot of ideas and cuisines and influences anyway?
    — Kate Kassin, Bon Appétit, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Optional restaurants are as much a melting pot as the staffers themselves.
    — Marc Bona, cleveland, 31 Aug. 2022
  • The days of priding ourselves as a melting pot were over in 2016.
    — Star Tribune, 1 Oct. 2020
  • With more than 80 ethnic groups, the country has always been a melting pot.
    — Samuel Gebre, Bloomberg.com, 24 Sep. 2020
  • The holder was like a stove lid with a hole in it on which the melting pot could be set and a cook stove used to melt bullet metal.
    — Outdoor Life, 23 Nov. 2023
  • Howard spoke about how equality can not be assumed, even in a melting pot of a sport like basketball.
    — Kyle Neddenriep, The Indianapolis Star, 17 June 2020
  • This event is a melting pot worthy of the United States itself.
    — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 17 Mar. 2022
  • The concerts have become a melting pot of Swifties who all speak the same lyrical language.
    — Bryan West, USA TODAY, 7 Dec. 2024
  • The list of nations will form a melting pot across stadiums for this week’s and the following week’s games.
    — Marc Bona, cleveland, 29 Sep. 2022
  • While some might write off the platform as a melting pot of memes and dance-off videos, its spirit is more old-fashioned than some might think.
    — Frances Solá-Santiago, refinery29.com, 26 June 2021
  • The bais, the researchers realized, are big melting pots, big playgrounds, for a menagerie of forest dwellers.
    — Zhengyang Wang, Scientific American, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Not to pretend that the world was some sort of wonderful melting pot back in the 1870s.
    — Liza Foreman, Variety, 10 Oct. 2021
  • But the duo makes their own unique style of music, which has become a melting pot of genres and inspirations.
    — Bellamy Richardson, Peoplemag, 26 Aug. 2022
  • What a lot of people fail to realize is that New England is such a big melting pot.
    — Jeneé Osterheldt, BostonGlobe.com, 26 May 2023
  • And check out this final stat that shows you how much more of a melting pot swing vote Hispanics are becoming.
    — NBC News, 10 Oct. 2021
  • Across the board, the melting pot that is the Peruvian culinary canon is proudly showing its roots.
    — Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Dec. 2024
  • But where the Catalans are proudly Catalan, Madrid is more of a melting pot.
    — Christian L. Wright, WSJ, 29 Apr. 2022
  • And that's what New York is, a melting pot for all these different races and religions.
    — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 3 Dec. 2023
  • My Dedsec cell looks like a true melting pot of London society in terms of race, gender, and even class.
    — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 28 Oct. 2020
  • His love of Indian food and bagels is all about the culinary melting pot of New York City.
    — Beth D'addono, NOLA.com, 23 Nov. 2020
  • The city has long been a melting pot, its port exchanging goods and ideas with everywhere in the Mediterranean (and beyond).
    — Federica Bocco, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 May 2024
  • The ’80s in London, of course, was a melting pot of talent and exuberant fun.
    — Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 17 Sep. 2024
  • Turns out, Place de la République is a bit of a melting pot, a must-skate location for anyone who brings a board to Paris.
    — Álvaro Valiño, Washington Post, 30 July 2024
  • The record blends sounds of hip-hop, country, and folk into a sonic melting pot that serves as a microcosm of Shaboozey’s sound as a whole.
    — Okla Jones, Essence, 9 May 2024
  • The melting pot of different people, the good food, the block parties, the camaraderie, the family.
    — Mya Abraham, VIBE.com, 6 May 2025

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