… the molten sunlight of warm skies …—T. B. Costain
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obsolete: made by melting and casting
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Craft your own ornament, blown by professionals out of hot molten glass.—Caroline Ritzie, Cincinnati Enquirer, 7 Dec. 2025 Key challenges included managing the flow of molten aluminum during filling and ensuring proper solidification across sections with significantly different thicknesses.—Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 6 Dec. 2025 Millions of years ago, a large bubble of molten rock pushed up beneath the surface, gently doming the overlying sedimentary layers.—Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 5 Dec. 2025 The expanse of a cookie, its crumbly craters and molten rivulets, is a playground for the pastry chef.—Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 4 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for molten
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Etymology
Middle English, from past participle of melten to melt
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