How to Use meld in a Sentence

meld

1 of 2 verb
Definition of meldnext
Synonyms for meldnext
  • The themes of the rehearsals meld with the life and memories the women share.
    — Callum McLennan, Variety, 21 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • To form a Chow meld the tile has to be discarded by the player to your left.
    — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2022
  • Crouched, the fishers meld into the fluid scene, as if rocks in the marsh.
    — Angelica Aboulhosn, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Now Wood was determined to meld the mission of truth-telling with the joy of joke-telling.
    — Wesley Lowery, Washington Post, 1 May 2023
  • The group melds New Orleans Jazz with Irish folk music.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Chill overnight: Seal the lids, and chill the pickles in the fridge until the flavors meld—a minimum of 12 hours.
    — Jasmine Smith, Southern Living, 10 Sep. 2023
  • The cheese is, at least in the beginning, gooey and melds in a lovely way with the root vegetables.
    — Bon Appétit Contributor, Bon Appétit, 16 Dec. 2023
  • Art deco accents like stained glass and gold bar stools meld with bright pinks and greens.
    — Emma Balter, Chron, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Reduce the heat to achieve a steady simmer and cook for 10 minutes — and up to 30 minutes — to let the flavors of the herbs and beans meld.
    — Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2022
  • Tieszen said the success of the group has come largely from the ability to meld and mesh players.
    — Josh Reed, Anchorage Daily News, 10 May 2022
  • These artists melded music trends in the U.S. with the sounds of their Latin American roots.
    — Lucas Villa, refinery29.com, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Remove from heat and let stand for 15 minutes to allow the flavors to meld.
    — Michael A. Gardiner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Oct. 2022
  • When the sauce is reduced and the veggies are translucent, add the oysters and cook for a few minutes to meld the flavors.
    — Audrey Bruno, SELF, 13 Mar. 2024
  • The 1-by-1-inch artworks were abstract images of landscapes in earth tones that seemed to meld land and sky.
    — La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Reduce the heat to medium-low, cover, and cook for 30 to 40 minutes to allow the flavors to meld.
    — Dallas News, 13 Sep. 2021
  • 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
  • Increase the heat to medium high and bring to a boil, then reduce the heat to low, cover and cook until the flavors meld, a minute or two.
    — Joe Yonan, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Chili tastes even better the next day after the flavors have had some time to meld together.
    — Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 25 Aug. 2023
  • As with most braises, this one improves after a night in the fridge, giving the flavors time to deepen and meld.
    — New York Times, 29 Oct. 2021
  • Inspired by Isamu Noguchi, the lights artfully meld function and form.
    — Maria Geyman, Vogue, 29 Nov. 2023
  • They’re designed to meld the digital and real worlds, and get people huffing and puffing in the process.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Feb. 2023
  • The artist melds oil pigments with cold wax, a less common technique than using hot wax, to add depth and texture.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2023
  • Mix to combine and allow to sit while the sweet potato bakes, in order for the flavors to meld and the cabbage to soften slightly.
    — Laura McLively, The Mercury News, 3 Jan. 2024
  • But in melding fiction and truth, the team places much effort in getting the best details for the story being told.
    — Anhar Karim, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Ilaria is a true artist and her pieces meld the worlds of masculine and feminine in the most effortless way.
    — Erika Veurink, Vogue, 22 Feb. 2024
  • But on her most outward-looking record, Giddens melds the past and present, writing a bold new future for herself in the process.
    — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Make this salad a day ahead, wrap, and refrigerate to allow the flavors to meld overnight.
    — Julia Levy, Southern Living, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Yet theme park creatives are clearly thinking about games and how to better meld them with physical spaces.
    — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2024
  • The Alpha melds those two worlds, giving you more physical real estate so that typing is comfortable but not sacrificing portability.
    — Anthony Karcz, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
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meld

2 of 2 noun
  • Years later, the two share a unique mind-meld on the 8-3 Lions team.
    — Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 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
  • This fragrance queues in on vanilla, saffron, almond, and suede leather meld in the air.
    — Cassell Ferere, Forbes, 23 Dec. 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
  • Silky meld of bright acidity and young red fruit—raspberries.
    — Tom Mullen, Forbes, 22 May 2022
  • The Global Citizen duet, as expected, is a pitch-perfect meld of their unique sounds that would make the Queen of Soul herself proud.
    — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 20 Dec. 2020
  • 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
  • Alwyn said the musical mind-meld was never the official plan.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 2 May 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • Instead, while the two men are on campus all day, Rose is alone at the house with Shirley—and the writer’s idea for the book emerges as a kind of spontaneous inspiration, on the sight of Rose, that’s also a sort of telepathic mind-meld.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 4 June 2020
  • At his Manhattan restaurant Tabla, Mr. Cardoz became a master of the meld, known for bringing ingredients and techniques from around the world to a single dish.
    — Julia Moskin, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • When asked later about their practically wordless mind-meld on set, Anthony just laughs.
    — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 3 Nov. 2022
  • In some ways, the struggle is more complicated, as long-term physical consequences of what her body endured on 9/11 meld with the effects of aging or other health issues.
    — Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2021
  • 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
  • Cyborg ontology is the brain-meld between self and computerized leg.
    — The Cyborg Jillian Weise, Wired, 21 Dec. 2021
  • On her latest, Spanish guitar flourishes, a cinematic Western vibe and Faith’s unique, sultry twang meld to convey this tale of a young woman who falls for a headstrong, restless cowboy.
    — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 31 July 2023
  • Klosterman’s earlier nonfiction books, which pioneered the now familiar meld of memoir and pop-culture commentary, presented a portrait of the author as a young man in, but not entirely of, that decade.
    — Frank Guan, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Usually strummed on a beautiful Gretsch hollow body, these tunes featured a musical meld of twangy, overdriven guitars and simple chord progressions.
    — Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2022
  • Another example of how business and community meld comes from Pilgrim’s Pride, which employs close to 3,200 people at the Mount Pleasant facility.
    — Suzanne Brooke, Dallas News, 10 Nov. 2020
  • Meanwhile, Vittorio Giampietro’s score — a spare meld of folk singing, percussion and lonely instruments — is its own artful coloring.
    — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2022
  • Viewers who speak multiple languages may be familiar with the meld; a similar cultural phenomenon exists with the concept of Spanglish, for instance.
    — Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2022
  • Together, they’re meant to prompt audience reflection and interaction, to turn the museum into a social space, a meld of public forum, classroom and therapy session.
    — New York Times, 3 June 2021
  • The performance’s meld of musical styles and visual signifiers was apt for Koffee, whose work reconciles the demands of local history and tradition with those of the contemporary global pop marketplace.
    — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2022
  • Years later, the two share a unique mind-meld on the 8-3 Lions team.
    — Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 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
  • This fragrance queues in on vanilla, saffron, almond, and suede leather meld in the air.
    — Cassell Ferere, Forbes, 23 Dec. 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

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