How do you use the word "mellow" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "mellow" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "mellow": The mellow sounds of the Rhodes piano are partly responsible for thousands of accidental conceptions. She has got a mellow, round voice.

Mellow Meaning

/ˈmɛləʊ/

Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

adjSoft or tender by reason of ripeness; having a tender pulp.

adjMatured and smooth, and not acidic, harsh, or sharp.

Sentence Examples

The mellow sounds of the Rhodes piano are partly responsible for thousands of accidental conceptions.

She has got a mellow, round voice.

Like good wine, women mellow when they age.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

melt relaxed ripe

Antonyms:

green tense

CEFR Practice Quiz

The aged whiskey's taste was ____ and smooth, unlike the sharp burn of new spirits.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The jazz music had a ____ and relaxing tone that perfectly complemented the cozy atmosphere of the cafe.

Word Origin & History

The adjective is derived from Late Middle English melowe, melwe (“ripe, mellow; juicy; sweet”) [and other forms]; further etymology uncertain, possibly: * from an attributive use of melow, melowe, melewe, mele (“meal from ground grain or legumes; flour; kernel of barley or lentils”) [and other forms], from Old English melo, melu (“meal (edible part of a grain or pulse); flour”), from Proto-Germanic *melwą (“ground corn; meal; flour”), from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to crush; to grind”); or * a variant of Middle English merow, merowe, meruw (“soft, tender; of a person: frail; of love: unstable, variable”) [and other forms], from Old English meru, mearu (“soft, tender; delicate, frail; callow”) [and other forms], from Proto-Germanic *marwaz (“soft, mellow; brittle, delicate”), from Proto-Indo-European *mer(w)- (“to rub; to pack”). The noun and verb are both derived from the adjective. The etymology of noun sense 3 (“close friend; lover”) is unknown, but may also be derived from the adjective. Cognates * Dutch murw (“tender”) * German mürbe (“soft, tender”) * German Low German möör (“tender”) * Old Norse mör (“tender; aching”) (Icelandic meyr (“tender”)) * Saterland Frisian muur (“tender”) * West Frisian murf (“tender”)

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"How can thoſe men call home the loſt ſheepe that are gone aſtray, comming into the Miniſtery before their wits be ſtaid. This greene fruite, béeing gathered before it be ripe, is rotten before it be mellow, and infected with Sciſmes before they haue learned to bridle their affections, […]" — 1589, T[homas] Nashe, The Anatomie of Absurditie: […], London: […] I[ohn] Charlewood for Thomas Hacket, […], →OCLC, signature Dii, verso:

"Com[inius]. Hee'l ſhake your Rome about your eares. / Mene[nius]. As Hercules did ſhake downe Mellow Fruite: You haue made faire worke." — c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vi], page 24, column 2:

"A little longer, yet a little longer, / And Nature drops him down, without your Sin, / Like mellow Fruit, without a Winter Storm." — 1681, John Dryden, The Spanish Fryar: Or, the Double Discovery. […], London: […] Richard Tonson and Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, Act III, page 42:

"But Mary secretly rejoiced that the youngest of the three was very much what her father must have been when he wore a round jacket, and showed a marvellous nicety of aim in playing at marbles, or in throwing stones to bring down the mellow pears." — 1871–1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], “Final”, in Middlemarch […], volume IV, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book VIII, page 361:

"Ay, how fine they be in their liveries, and each of 'em as full of meat as an egg, and as sleek and as round about as a mellow codlin." — 1892, Alfred Tennyson, The Foresters: Robin Hood and Maid Marian, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 3:

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