Example Sentences

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Olivia Newton-John is mellowing out on the white slip-covered couch in her Malibu living room.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 8, 2022

"I think the Queen is mellowing in her old age," Quinn responded.

From Fox News • Aug. 10, 2021

You begin to wonder if, in his relative old age — Mr. Theroux is 74 — this inimitably caustic novelist and nonfiction writer is mellowing.

From New York Times • Sep. 22, 2015

Olivier is too much of a nincompoop to truly care about, and Parrot, on the cusp of his 50s, is mellowing into contentment.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 23, 2010

It was in the pleasant season when summer is mellowing into autumn, and the first golden patches are seen amid the beeches and the ferns.

From The Last Galley Impressions and Tales by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir