How to Use mellow in a Sentence

mellow

1 of 2 adjective

• He was in a mellow mood.
• He's a very mellow guy.
• The painting captures the mellow light of a summer evening.
• This wine is very mellow.
• She was a tough and demanding teacher, but she became mellower in her old age.
• After a couple of drinks we all started feeling pretty mellow.
• In the end, though, the pro-Trump crowd was small, and the mood was mellow.
  — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2023
• The yellow stripes on the ceiling make the whole room pop, while the grays mellow things out just a touch.
  — Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 19 July 2023
• The latter add a crunchy texture, but mellow with time bathing in the soup.
  — Emma Balter, Chron, 6 Dec. 2022
• Enjoy a mellow high that helps to put your mind and body at ease.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Nov. 2022
• There are four peppers in mellow tomato sauce in the can.
  — Florence Fabricant, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2024
• The 2023 Academy Awards were about as mellow as an awards show can be.
  — Sonia Rao, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2023
• There are moments when the album flirts with early-‘70s mellow gold, which is no knock.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 22 July 2022
• At the same time, the garlic becomes mellow and deeply savory.
  — Aaron Hutcherson, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2022
• The color scheme is neutral and mellow so as not to detract from the scenes outside.
  — Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 23 Dec. 2022
• Nothing but a stylish pair of joggers will do on your most mellow days.
  — Laura Lajiness Kaupke, Harper's BAZAAR, 23 Aug. 2022
• The cool tones create a mellow, relaxing place to get your bake on.
  — Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 7 Nov. 2022
• Life would lead her back to more beaches, seashells, those warm and mellow meadows.
  — Hank Stuever, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2022
• Each gummy provides 20mg of delta-8 THC, a compound that's known to cause a mellow high.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 1 Nov. 2022
• Although both are vibrant, dahlias seem more mellow to me, and tulips more crisp, in keeping with the sun’s path.
  — Catie Marron, Washington Post, 15 Nov. 2022
• Bright yellows and greens add a bold pop, but mellow blues and whites create a laidback look.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 4 Sep. 2023
• Lime from the shells activates the coca, giving a mellow high.
  — Anika Fajardo, Travel + Leisure, 10 Mar. 2023
• The female singer was good, for sure, but the song was quite mellow, a refined studio version.
  — Jim Clash, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
• The pot style call, specifically, a glass call or the slightly more mellow glass-over-slate.
  — M.d. Johnson, Field & Stream, 7 Feb. 2023
• Try to remember the kind of September When life was slow and oh, so mellow.
  — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2023
• Who can resist mellow lemon and salty cheese, each noodle so tender and full of care?
  — Mackenzie Chung Fegan, Bon Appétit, 18 Mar. 2024
• On a blanket beneath a neighboring oak tree, mellow skaters pass joints and laugh at the clouds.
  — Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 25 July 2022
• Lemon adds sharpness while the molasses in the brown sugar helps ground all the bracing spices into a mellow mix.
  — Ben Mims, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2023
• For most people, the delta 8 high is mellow and relaxing.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 1 Nov. 2022
• For something more mellow, take the 5.8-mile trail to the summit of Hurricane Mountain.
  — Liz Cantrell, Travel + Leisure, 23 July 2023

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mellow

2 of 2 verb

• The wine needs time to mellow.
• She was a tough and demanding teacher, but she has mellowed in her old age.
• She was a tough and demanding teacher, but old age has mellowed her.
• The fever has mellowed a bit over the course of the year.
  — Gregory Krieg, CNN, 21 Dec. 2017
• The cats, which spent the first day mewling, have mellowed out.
  — Warren Richey, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Sep. 2017
• And all of it is scored to mellow, synth-laden yacht rock and smooth jazz.
  — Calum Marsh, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2022
• Just be sure to cook the lemons before adding them to the cake to mellow their flavor.
  — Sunset Magazine, 2 Jan. 2020
• Tyler has, of course, mellowed with age and the wild stuff is way behind him.
  — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 22 Mar. 2018
• In the meantime, his feelings have mellowed toward the man who wrote the song.
  — Ed Masley, azcentral, 7 Jan. 2020
• The rum’s kick mellows to a warm glimmer, and the whole project is done in under an hour.
  — Sarah Karnasiewicz, WSJ, 19 Sep. 2017
• Buy now but lay this wine down for a few years to let the tannins mellow a bit.
  — Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 21 Apr. 2023
• The creamy goat cheese mellows their sweet-tart flavors.
  — Emma Phelps, Southern Living, 9 Sep. 2023
• Slight sweetness and lemon mellow the warm drink to feel like a fuzzy warm hug.
  — Karla Alindahao, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023
• The final harvest took place in 1992, and things have mellowed out since.
  — Chadner Navarro, Fortune, 7 Mar. 2020
• That’s what Twain chooses to mellow here, the demeanor rather than the music.
  — Dan Weiss, Billboard, 4 Oct. 2017
• This wait both firms the texture and mellows the flavors.
  — Leah Eskin, chicagotribune.com, 24 Apr. 2018
• But the book’s final stretch is also the story of how Reed mellowed.
  — Jeremy Lybarger, The New Republic, 17 Oct. 2023
• The cream cheese can mellow the most extreme flavors, and the result is a rich bite that still explodes on the taste buds.
  — Andy Staples, SI.com, 30 June 2017
• Pro tip: Toss thinly sliced raw onion with lime juice to mellow its bite.
  — Woman's Day Kitchen, Woman's Day, 17 Jan. 2019
• The spice blooms in the oil, opening up its aromatics, while the garlic mellows out.
  — Bon Appétit, 21 Nov. 2019
• At 71, the five-time Phillies all-star shortstop isn’t mellowing.
  — Marc Narducci, Philly.com, 19 June 2017
• Tossing the thinly sliced raw onion with lime juice helps mellow its bite.
  — The Good Housekeeping Test Kitchen, Good Housekeeping, 6 Jan. 2020
• Best if used within six months; heat will mellow with age.
  — Sunset Magazine, 5 Feb. 2020
• Hellion has lived in Belgium for more than a decade now, but the fromage hasn’t mellowed him much.
  — Monica Kendrick, Chicago Reader, 29 Mar. 2018
• Roast radish leaves as well as radishes; while the radishes mellow and turn buttery-soft, the leaves turn crisp.
  — Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2022
• But this does certainly seem like a dram that could use a splash of water or two to mellow it out a bit.
  — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 6 Sep. 2022
• Then pull over for some munchies to mellow everyone out.
  — Darcel Rockett, chicagotribune.com, 16 Aug. 2019
• If nothing else, six months of aging should at least mellow it out.
  — Nick Canepa Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Nov. 2021
• The gel-like top layer of passion fruit is a punch of flavor, tactfully mellowed by the cream and crepe.
  — Samantha Chery, Washington Post, 31 July 2023
• Thus, the spirit of toking up and mellowing out with friends and good music would spread across the country.
  — Tauhid Chappell & Sam Wood, Philly.com, 19 Apr. 2018

Last Updated: 3 May 2024