Example sentences for: mellowed

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

  • Perhaps it's all the Zen meditation, which has mellowed his showy Method edges.

  • Perhaps the absoluteness of the act of writing, in effect, his own elegy--and the absoluteness of his inability to answer his critics afterward--curiously mellowed him.

  • These antipathies mellowed into condescension in W.E.B.

  • Walter W. Skeat, surely one of the greatest linguists of all time and an outstanding innovator of his day (late 19th century), was often given to testy replies when a correspondent to Notes and Queries either disagreed with him or speculated on the etymology of a word without having first looked it up in one of Skeat's works or, if the alphabetic section had appeared, in the Oxford English Dictionary . He was often nasty; but toward the latter part of the 1890s the crust softened, and he mellowed a bit.

  • Thurmond's apologists insist that he has mellowed.


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