How to Use cantaloupe in a Sentence

cantaloupe

noun

• Serve it in glass coupes to show off the color of the cantaloupe.
  — Anush Elbakyan, BostonGlobe.com, 29 June 2018
• Transfer the cream to the blender and blend with the cantaloupe until smooth.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Sep. 2021
• The thought of a half cantaloupe filled with cottage cheese gives me the warm-fuzzies.
  — Ellie Krieger, Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2022
• Next day my knee swelled to the size of a cantaloupe — partial tear of my ACL.
  — Sarah Barker, Outside Online, 30 Nov. 2020
• This has been a tough year to date to support cantaloupes.
  — oregonlive.com, 26 July 2019
• If microscale gaps were the width of a cantaloupe, nanoscale gaps would be the width of a cherry.
  — Joel Goldberg, Science | AAAS, 28 Apr. 2021
• Thus, the cantaloupe and beans made a valiant effort to sprout and then withered away.
  — Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2022
• My doc removed a ton of fibroids that varied in sizes, with the largest about the size of a cantaloupe.
  — Kayla Greaves, Allure, 17 July 2023
• The rare meteorite is about the size of a cantaloupe but weighs a hefty 17 pounds (7.7 kilograms).
  — Jackie Wattles, CNN, 24 Jan. 2023
• There does not seem to be enough sun or heat here to produce even one cantaloupe per plant.
  — oregonlive.com, 26 July 2019
• And feeling a cantaloupe is OK, but not as good a sign as giving it a good snort.
  — Bill St. John, The Denver Post, 2 July 2019
• This is what a fruit salad is supposed to be, not sad chunks of cantaloupe at the bottom of a cup.
  — Kari Sonde, Washington Post, 8 July 2019
• Try cantaloupe dressed with a peach agrodolce and served with blueberries and basil.
  — Saveur Editors, Saveur, 30 July 2018
• Think of drinking cantaloupe juice with a splash of fizzy water.
  — Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2020
• Lunch is cottage cheese with fresh fruit, like cantaloupe or peach.
  — Jen Murphy, WSJ, 18 Aug. 2018
• My surgery had left me pretty disfigured — one breast was the size of a cantaloupe but the other was the size of a grapefruit.
  — Teen Vogue, 21 June 2019
• Ripe cantaloupes should have a musky fragrance and the end of the fruit opposite where the vine is attached should be soft, but not too soft.
  — oregonlive, 2 Sep. 2023
• Cut cantaloupes in half crosswise and scrape out seeds; discard.
  — Bon Appetit, 19 Aug. 2017
• The cantaloupe has been hacked into, exposing seeds and pale flesh.
  — Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2023
• Everything from cantaloupe to grapes to berries tastes better dunked in this easy fruit dip recipe.
  — Bhg Test Kitchen, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Mar. 2023
• The bananas, whole wheat bread, raisins, sweet potatoes and cantaloupe are a break from their normal diet of hay and bark.
  — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 7 June 2023
• All cacao isn't the same size, but the fruits, the weight and the kind of mass is between a cantaloupe or a honeydew and a watermelon.
  — Téa Francesca Price, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Apr. 2021
• The light salmon color of the wine catches the light in the glass and opens up with aromas of blueberry, pink grapefruit, cantaloupe and a light hint of rose petal.
  — Amber Love Bond, Forbes, 26 June 2021
• Here, fresh cantaloupe purées into a smooth, fluffy pulp that sets into cheesecake, thanks to gelatin.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Sep. 2021
• Ashton had a Wilms tumor, a cancerous mass in his left kidney the size of a cantaloupe.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 May 2019
• With a rough network of lines on its skin, a Galia looks a lot like a cantaloupe, with flesh that ranges from pale green to Creamsicle orange.
  — Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Aug. 2021
• Next comes a slender barge ferrying nibbles, the first of which captures the essence of cantaloupe and melon.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 11 June 2019
• And the palate is sweet and light, with notes of cantaloupe, lemon, vanilla and toffee followed by just a hint of astringency.
  — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 8 Mar. 2022
• And as my baby grew from the size of a lemon to a grapefruit to a cantaloupe, the box through which my colleagues see me on video calls cropped out my basketball-sized gut.
  — New York Times, 4 Mar. 2022
• Cease to rely solely on my own judgment regarding the ripeness of a cantaloupe.
  — Audrey Burges, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024