How to Use molten in a Sentence

molten

adjective

• The lava gushed over the notch and fed the molten river.
  — Heidi Julavit, The New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2021
• The gray gullet of the sky seems to have swallowed a molten coin.
  — Erik Lacitis, The Seattle Times, 8 Sep. 2017
• Fissures opened just north of the town, but the molten rock flowed away from it.
  — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 13 Feb. 2024
• The bottoms are crisp, the tops fluffy and the insides full of molten hot pork and soup.
  — Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2021
• When enough has formed, the molten rock erupts, shooting through the Earth’s crust.
  — Justin Ray, Robb Report, 28 July 2023
• Fresh out of the cosmic oven, the moon was hot and molten, glowing red in the night sky.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2021
• Some of them are relics of its ancient past as a molten world.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 29 July 2022
• Standing 640 feet high, the shaft’s top is filled with molten salt.
  — National Geographic, 12 Aug. 2020
• From the widening gash, molten rock burbled and splashed, then shot dozens of feet in the air.
  — Author: Amy B Wang, Anchorage Daily News, 8 May 2018
• From the widening gash, molten rock burbled and splashed, then shot dozens of feet in the air.
  — Amy B Wang, chicagotribune.com, 7 May 2018
• From the widening gash, molten rock burbled and splashed, then shot dozens of feet in the air.
  — Author: Amy B Wang, Anchorage Daily News, 8 May 2018
• Take your look to new heights with a pair of on-trend platform heels in a molten hue.
  — Sophie Dweck, Town & Country, 20 Oct. 2022
• The volcano spits a car-sized chunk of molten lava at you.
  — Sofie Bates, Popular Mechanics, 30 June 2020
• His head was cut down on to the sand, his mouth filled with molten gold to mark the greed that all the Parthians knew him for.
  — Peter Stothard, Time, 21 Dec. 2022
• After a session, there are black streaks of molten rubber along the flanks of the car.
  — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 1 July 2021
• Those are the skydivers in NC that dive with molten aluminum flares.
  — Mark Price, charlotteobserver, 22 Dec. 2017
• On the journey between plate and mouth, the bouncing strings of molten cheese seem to be alive.
  — Francesco Lastrucci, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Feb. 2021
• The polyester suits both burn and glorp into molten chaos.
  — Rachel Lance, Wired, 6 Dec. 2020
• The night was filled with that eerie light that only molten rock can produce.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 27 Mar. 2023
• Deep, dark cake surrounds a molten core that is sauce and filling in one.
  — Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2021
• The fruit arrives with a thin crackly shell that gives way to a molten slice of banana.
  — Andi Berlin, The Arizona Republic, 21 July 2022
• That requires the moon to have been molten at some point, which takes a lot of energy.
  — Paul Sutter, Space.com, 17 Mar. 2025
• The crunch of its tortilla held up far better, and the molten cheese gave this contestant the edge.
  — Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News, 21 Dec. 2022
• The volcano has puked up a whole bunch of red-hot molten rock which has flowed forth and covered a wide area.
  — Mike Wehner, BGR, 22 Mar. 2021
• When the smelters smashed the furnace and the molten slag flowed out, what remained were precious lumps of copper.
  — Matti Friedman, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Nov. 2021
• Dolloped across the pizza, its fat spreads over the molten lake of cheese, staining it with the bright red and fire of the peppers.
  — Nick Kindelsperger, chicagotribune.com, 27 Aug. 2020
• At the time of the July activity, the molten rock was in motion.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 24 Nov. 2023
• My mother was a blacksmith’s forge with warm, molten arms.
  — Stephen Burt, The New Yorker, 7 June 2016
• Axial Seamount formed on what’s known as a hot spot, where plumes of molten rock rise from Earth’s mantle into the crust.
  — Denise Chow, NBC news, 8 May 2025
• But a lot of lunar crystals seem to have formed from a second reservoir of molten rock 4.35 billion years ago.
  — Robin George Andrews, Quanta Magazine, 25 Apr. 2025