How to Use meltdown in a Sentence

meltdown

1 of 2 noun

• After a long day at the beach, our toddler had a major meltdown in the car on the way home.
• The mom protested, to no avail, which led the boy to a meltdown.
  — Gregory Burnett, cleveland, 6 Dec. 2021
• The table below shows how epic the meltdown was for the 2024 NFC North.
  — Mike Sando, The Athletic, 20 Jan. 2025
• Hag, the Wolves clash is a chance to steady the ship and avoid a festive season meltdown.
  — Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 26 Dec. 2024
• Later, when Nora has a meltdown at home, Ruth sweeps in to care for the girl.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2022
• And at the heart of it all is a very frazzled, very rich woman on the verge of a complete meltdown.
  — Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 13 Sep. 2024
• Yes, the currency was on the slide and prices were soaring, but a full-on meltdown didn’t come.
  — Bloomberg.com, 7 June 2023
• It wouldn’t have been had the Celtics avoided a meltdown in the final four minutes with a 10-point lead.
  — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 29 May 2023
• Friday’s meltdown marks the largest lead the Sox have blown since last September 6 against the Rays.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 27 May 2022
• The recall hinged on the idea that San Francisco was in meltdown and the DA had lost control.
  — The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 16 Nov. 2022
• We were warned, but who could have foreseen such an epic meltdown?
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 16 Feb. 2024
• The second-year coach wasn't around for that epic Super Bowl meltdown.
  — Paul Newberry, ajc, 12 Sep. 2022
• This doesn’t seem like a team preparing for a meltdown.
  — Daniel Kohn, Spin, 6 Sep. 2023
• Southwest’s meltdown has caught the ire of Congress and its pilot union.
  — Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 31 Mar. 2023
• And Libby got all these boy things and had this massive meltdown.
  — Good Housekeeping, 22 Mar. 2022
• The Ravens will host the Denver Broncos, who can’t score on their best day and seemed on the verge of a full meltdown in losing 23-10 to the Panthers.
  — Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 28 Nov. 2022
• Instead, the Browns lost 31-30 in one of the biggest last-minute meltdowns in team history.
  — cleveland, 7 Aug. 2023
• But none of it compares with the full-scale meltdown that markets witnessed 15 years ago this week.
  — WSJ, 15 Sep. 2023
• After Friday’s latest meltdown for the Yankees, the team’s lead over the Red Sox was down to three in the loss column.
  — Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 6 July 2024
• In the hours before Trump spoke, his party was in meltdown mode on Capitol Hill.
  — Time, 16 Nov. 2022
• More Fortune coverage of the FTX meltdown here, here and here.
  — Alan Murray, Fortune, 18 Nov. 2022
• This week’s meltdown is not the first time the company has found itself in this predicament.
  — Matt Stiles, CNN, 29 Dec. 2022
• The Yankees won for the fourth time in five games and got their second walk-off win following a rare bullpen meltdown.
  — Larry Fleisher, ajc, 24 Apr. 2022
• Bastian claimed CrowdStrike was nowhere to be found during the meltdown.
  — Ramishah Maruf, CNN, 7 Aug. 2024
• To quote Roosevelt, in the past tense, The only fear to fear was fear itself — fear of an economic meltdown.
  — Laurence Kotlikoff, Forbes, 11 July 2022
• For passengers, one big lesson from the meltdown is to have a backup plan.
  — Peter Greenberg, CBS News, 6 Jan. 2023
• The fact that there have been four single-digit fourth quarters in the NBA this season and the Heat has three of them has played a role in those in-game meltdowns.
  — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 15 Feb. 2025
• The scene of disaster and the death toll left in the wake of Fukushima was scary, but neither were caused by nuclear meltdown.
  — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 27 July 2022
• One where a patron can have a full metal meltdown about the state of the world and still be given resources to find housing, a shower, a meal.
  — Lisa Bubert, Longreads, 27 Feb. 2024
• The app meltdown cost the company $100 million, the CFO estimated late last year.
  — John Towfighi, CNN, 8 Feb. 2025

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melt down

2 of 2 verb

• The starter would give the Angels a chance and the bullpen would melt down.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2022
• In the two losses, the middle of the bullpen had melted down before the Rangers could get the ball to Smith.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 24 May 2023
• Which guy is least likely to melt down if things get sticky?
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Sep. 2021
• The Sun Devils, trailing 32-16 with five minutes left in the first half, caused the Beavers to melt down with a full-court press.
  — oregonlive, 14 Jan. 2023
• She will get overwhelmed, melt down, and millions of people will die.
  — Washington Examiner Staff, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 2 Nov. 2024
• That’s being able to face a person or a lawn sign and not completely melt down.
  — Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2024
• At least the Scarlet Knights didn’t melt down until the final quarter.
  — Mike Preston, baltimoresun.com, 16 Mar. 2021
• For once, the Detroit Lions did not wait till the fourth quarter to melt down with a series of hideous mistakes.
  — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 20 Sep. 2020
• While that was happening, the 21-year old Kostyuk appeared to be melting down.
  — Ivan Carter, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Mar. 2024
• Stein did not share the stage with Biden on Friday at a rally that took place as Democrats across the country were melting down.
  — Francesca Chambers, USA TODAY, 2 July 2024
• Water from the dam’s reservoir had been used to cool the reactors, which now could overheat and melt down if turned on.
  — Richard Engel, NBC News, 22 Feb. 2024
• But plenty of teams have melted down during the final round.
  — Ndaschel, oregonlive, 10 May 2023
• Then the defense melted down allowing Jacksonville back in the game.
  — Rob Reischel, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2024
• Yes, that video of your child melting down in Target or that photo of them naked and reading a book on the potty can seem too good not to post at the moment.
  — Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 21 July 2023
• In their view, the potential upside of watching your opponent melt down is greater than the risk of tripping up.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 18 May 2024
• Italy’s is almost ten percent smaller, and its financial system may be the next to melt down.
  — Andrew Moravcsik, Foreign Affairs, 17 Oct. 2016
• But before fans melt down faster than Gruyère in fondue, that doesn’t mean he’s done with entertainment.
  — Jennifer McClellan, USA TODAY, 26 Apr. 2022
• As the rapper coined the slogan Hotties for Harris at the Atlanta event, conservatives got fired up to the point of melting down.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 31 July 2024
• And the government literally said, the health care system is going to melt down?
  — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 15 June 2023
• CrowdStrike has blamed the IT outage on a bug that released a botched update and melted down the world’s computer systems.
  — Aaron Gregg, Washington Post, 24 July 2024
• Finally, if the bricks themselves won't work in a new project, the glass can be melted down and 3D printed into a different shape.
  — Michael Franco, New Atlas, 20 Sep. 2024
• But to be used in transistors, pure silicon must be melted down.
  — Olatunji Osho-Williams, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Oct. 2024
• There are not many writers who, like prophets, seize, melt down, and reshape the archetypal stories of their people.
  — Larissa MacFarquhar, The New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2022
• The solid robot was able to move quickly to the ball, melt down, surround the ball, coalesce back into a solid and travel with the object out of the model.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Jan. 2023
• This will set your undereye makeup and melt down any excess powder.
  — Clare Holden, Glamour, 2 Apr. 2024
• The Ukrainian engineers keeping the plant from melting down are reaching their own breaking point.
  — Jeffrey Gettleman Finbarr O’Reilly, New York Times, 3 July 2023
• The plastic — salvaged from a waste site and beach cleanup in Cape Town — is melted down into a black goo and turned into sculptures, Olivier tells Axios.
  — Martin Vassolo, Axios, 6 Dec. 2024
• The starchy potatoes melt down into something almost cream-like, making the dish taste like a more exciting take on vichyssoise.
  — Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 May 2021
• This woman we’ve been told is an extremely capable lawyer simply melts down and begs Tommy for his help, and then is shocked and whiny when Tommy kills the snake to protect her from it.
  — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2024
• The ghost towns around Fukushima, created after three nuclear reactors melted down and fourth reactor exploded in 2011.
  — Thomas Bass author, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Mar 2025