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

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