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
The edges of radicchio mellow just enough to stay interesting.
From Salon • Dec. 16, 2025
The drums can produce melody and, while mellow, come alive with a speed that dramatically raises the pulse rate.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 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
I noticed that Blake looked like Phil but seemed to have more of Gay’s abrupt personality, whereas Josh resembled Gay yet had Phil’s mellow mood.
From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
Vocabulary lists containing mellow
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