How to Use meltdown in a Sentence

meltdown

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• After a long day at the beach, our toddler had a major meltdown in the car on the way home.
• 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
• We were warned, but who could have foreseen such an epic meltdown?
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 16 Feb. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• After the Ticketmaster meltdown last fall, Swifties with bad blood are on tour.
  — Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2023
• And his role in the meltdown that played out this week in the House helps explain why the Republican Party appears to be eating its own.
  — Annie Karni, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2023
• But in the wake of that meltdown, the supervision came to be run more centrally out of Washington.
  — Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2023
• After the defensive meltdown against Pittsburgh, the Bruins reshaped the struggling unit into one of the best in the country.
  — Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2023
• Their children’s meltdowns, tantrums times three, come unannounced and garner stares.
  — Linda Friedel, Kansas City Star, 31 Jan. 2024
• This year’s shakeup followed the 2020 Iowa caucus meltdown.
  — Will Weissert, Chicago Tribune, 3 July 2023
• Put morning and late-afternoon meltdowns to bed and buy one for each member of the family.
  — Lydia Price, Travel + Leisure, 27 Nov. 2023
• After all, these are the champions who’ve seen your spreadsheet meltdowns.
  — Cristian Esteban, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2023
• Finding help for Michael would be a win-win: Someone gets off the street, and Person is spared a potential meltdown that might scare passersby.
  — Danielle Paquette, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2023
• Jodie used to have hours-long meltdowns during transitions.
  — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 12 Feb. 2024
• The market for a risky type of bank debt that froze over after Credit Suisse’s March meltdown is reopening.
  — Chelsey Dulaney, WSJ, 13 June 2023
• But as Kerr would concede, all those positives make the Warriors’ latest meltdown sting even more.
  — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Dec. 2023
• Has travel insurance learned any new tricks in the last few years that might help protect you against a summer air travel meltdown?
  — Christopher Elliott, Forbes, 6 May 2023
• Thus, as Jeremy Allen White enjoyed a triumphant week, Melton’s stock went into meltdown.
  — Vulture, 12 Jan. 2024
• But all agree on one fact: the risk of a meltdown that spreads radioactive poisons across the region would be greater if fission reactions at the plant had not ceased 10 months ago.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 7 July 2023
• Nuclear plants must be continuously staffed to avoid the risk of a meltdown.
  — Nataliya Gumenyuk, The Atlantic, 6 Mar. 2024
• Seafood has been a huge economic driver for years and has helped bring the country back to life after the crippling 2008 economic meltdown.
  — Claire Volkman, Vogue, 16 Nov. 2023
• But that was before the Silicon Valley Bank’s meltdown.
  — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 24 Mar. 2023
• Chaos at the airport!Pro strategies for surviving the next air travel meltdown AI, self-service are taking over travel.
  — Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 2 June 2023
• In a clip posted on her Instagram Story, the actress held her daughter — mid meltdown — while the Jonas Brothers’ music played in the background.
  — Jill Lupupa, Peoplemag, 18 Aug. 2023
• The breakthrough of the Stanford meltdown into the mainstream consciousness has been universal.
  — Justin Vallejo, SPIN, 6 Apr. 2023

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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
• Some salvagers dug through piles of watches looking for gold to melt down and sell.
  — CNN, 10 May 2021
• 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
• All their drinking water had to be melted down from snow.
  — Sarah Kaplan, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2023
• 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
• If destroyed, that could lead to the reactor melting down.
  — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 6 July 2023
• The Black man who owned the foundry that ultimately melted down the statue described that work as an honor.
  — Theresa Vargas, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2023
• 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
• Forget chopping, just use a box grater to shred squash, garlic and onion to melt down into this delicious sauce.
  — Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2021
• 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
• In 1877, a French fisherman dredged up a bronze ram, decorated with Medusa’s infamous snake hair, and sent it to a foundry to melt down.
  — Laura Trethewey, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Sep. 2023
• And the government literally said, the health care system is going to melt down?
  — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 15 June 2023
• 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
• 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 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
• The vibrant shades melt down to reveal a more subtle hint of color that complements your natural lip shade.
  — Talia Connor, Rolling Stone, 7 Dec. 2023
• The reactors could melt down within 10 hours or two weeks without water, Budanov said.
  — Kostiantyn Khudov, Washington Post, 2 July 2023
• The intense heat then melts down the mud, which separates into liquid metal oxides.
  — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 7 Feb. 2024
• At every table in every restaurant, some argument, on every street corner, some kiss, at the 7-Eleven, some melt down.
  — Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 12 July 2022
• The foundry that agreed to melt down that oxidized metal — after others refused — couldn’t be publicly revealed.
  — Theresa Vargas, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2023
• With a more orderly race and a pace that doesn’t completely melt down, the horses that have demonstrated the most brilliance before the Derby tend to perform pretty well on the big day.
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 29 Apr. 2021
• After the massive 2011 earthquake, a major tsunami breached the sea walls and caused three reactors at the Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant to melt down.
  — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 16 Mar. 2022
• Long mammoth bones shaped into disposable blades were used to break down the animal carcasses before a fire helped melt down their fat.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 4 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024