Example sentences for: mellow

How can you use “mellow” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Graced with vineyards (notably Bardolino), lemon trees, olives, and cedars, the lake enjoys mild winters and mellow summers.

  • At home I'm used to putting up with whatever; But when I go away I want to have Something a whole lot nicer, smooth and mellow, Infusing hopefulness into the heart and veins, Good for banishing care and promoting a flow Of eloquence to make some lady think That I'm still young when it's perfectly clear I'm not.

  • The hero, Peter (Ron Livingston), an engineer at a generic software company, is suffocating under his boss, Lunbergh (Gary Cole), a dictator who punishes underlings from behind a strenuously mellow affect--each demand or rebuke prefaced by a seemingly upbeat "Yyyyeah."

  • If the Maritimes are warm to mellow from late June to early September, Newfoundland is a little fresher.

  • In that famous poem, Keats rubs autumn with the balm of his moistened language: "Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,/ Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun ..."


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