mellow

Example Sentences

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Composer Bernard Herrmann’s score, his last, is alternately mellow and roiling, befitting its placid but simmering antihero.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026

Not the mellow, easy-listening variety that serves as background music in elevators and waiting rooms.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 16, 2025

And their experience was actually quite mellow compared to other flotillas because of how social media had been reacting to it.

From Slate • Sep. 29, 2025

Newquay's Concrete Waves skatepark, with its tiled edges and concrete coping, is "mellow facsimile", said Mr Bishop.

From BBC • Sep. 21, 2025

The words musicians use to describe timbre are somewhat subjective, but most musicians would agree with the statement that, compared with each other, the first sound is mellow, the second bright, and the third rich.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones