How to Use melting pot in a Sentence

melting pot

noun
  • Not to pretend that the world was some sort of wonderful melting pot back in the 1870s.
    Liza Foreman, Variety, 10 Oct. 2021
  • As the late, great Jonathan Gold pointed out, L.A is the anti-melting pot.
    Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2022
  • It’s a melting pot of attendees who go for the food and leave with new friendships.
    Eric Fuller, Forbes, 16 May 2022
  • For Nashville to be this big melting pot of not just people, but of artistry, it’s been so much fun.
    Spin Contributor, SPIN, 14 Dec. 2023
  • It’s a melting pot of sound in which the flavors remain distinct.
    Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 June 2021
  • But where the Catalans are proudly Catalan, Madrid is more of a melting pot.
    Christian L. Wright, WSJ, 29 Apr. 2022
  • This event is a melting pot worthy of the United States itself.
    Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 17 Mar. 2022
  • The holder was like a stove lid with a hole in it on which the melting pot could be set and a cook stove used to melt bullet metal.
    Outdoor Life, 23 Nov. 2023
  • The list of nations will form a melting pot across stadiums for this week’s and the following week’s games.
    Marc Bona, cleveland, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Isn’t a restaurant a melting pot of ideas and cuisines and influences anyway?
    Kate Kassin, Bon Appétit, 6 Mar. 2023
  • What a lot of people fail to realize is that New England is such a big melting pot.
    Jeneé Osterheldt, BostonGlobe.com, 26 May 2023
  • While some might write off the platform as a melting pot of memes and dance-off videos, its spirit is more old-fashioned than some might think.
    Frances Solá-Santiago, refinery29.com, 26 June 2021
  • Hanau, a melting pot, was the site of a February 2020 shooting spree where nine people – who had ethnic roots – were killed.
    Fox News, 2 Oct. 2021
  • Optional restaurants are as much a melting pot as the staffers themselves.
    Marc Bona, cleveland, 31 Aug. 2022
  • The Dallas music scene has always been hard to pin down, and Deep Ellum is the city’s musical melting pot.
    Dallas News, 21 Feb. 2022
  • Oakland has always been a melting pot of so many people, so many cultures.
    Noël Burgess, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • But the duo makes their own unique style of music, which has become a melting pot of genres and inspirations.
    Bellamy Richardson, Peoplemag, 26 Aug. 2022
  • The thaumaturgic melting pot burbled away in Alexandria until the city fell to Muslim armies in 641 ad.
    Kent Russell, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022
  • And check out this final stat that shows you how much more of a melting pot swing vote Hispanics are becoming.
    NBC News, 10 Oct. 2021
  • The United States likes to call itself a melting pot of people from all nations, creeds, colors, and languages.
    Jason Fields, The Week, 2 May 2022
  • Olivia’s outfit was a melting pot of color and whimsical Y2K prints.
    Eni Subair, Vogue, 7 Feb. 2022
  • Home cooks from diverse backgrounds add to the melting pot in this new competition.
    Tribune News Service, cleveland, 19 June 2022
  • Ronstadt had to explain yet again that Mexico was a melting pot.
    Abby Aguirre, Vogue, 28 Sep. 2022
  • Scott said the new festival is aimed at celebrating the melting pot of the vibrant cultures that make up Charm City.
    Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 23 Aug. 2022
  • These men were seen as a threat, and Tiger Bay — a multiracial melting pot and home to trade unions and anti-colonial ferment — was a flashpoint of those fears.
    Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2021
  • What happens when the cultures of a great melting pot can no longer abide the historical sins of one another?
    Judson Berger, National Review, 24 Apr. 2021
  • Much like the metaphor of a crucible, influence is like a melting pot with competing factors.
    Jedidiah Alex Koh, Forbes, 4 May 2022
  • The home of Mardi Gras, with the utmost respect to our friends to the west in New Orleans, is a melting pot of flavors, cultures, traditions, and, of course people.
    Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Sicily is a melting pot, and Mazara del Vallo typifies that.
    Julia Buckley, CNN, 4 Nov. 2021
  • Ubiquitous in immigrant households, the cookie tin might be a more apt metaphor for our journeys than the melting pot.
    Raksha Vasudevan, New York Times, 6 June 2023

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