melt
verb (used without object)
to become liquefied by warmth or heat, as ice, snow, butter, or metal.
is melting
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present progressiveof melt (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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The Colorado snowpack is melting fast in an intense heatwave in which hundreds of U.S. weather stations have reported record-high March temperatures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026
Greenland is melting, the Alps are melting and the Himalayas are melting -- yet in one vast mountain region, huge glaciers have remained stable, or even gained mass, in recent decades.
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2025
Like an ice cube on a sultry summer day, Greenland’s ice sheet is melting, and that water, flowing into the ocean, is steadily raising sea level globally.
From Salon ● Jan. 24, 2025
In the case of polar sea ice, which is melting at a pace unrivaled by any period in the past 1,500 years, a reversal would entail halting melt and reestablishing ice cover.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 26, 2024
The temperature is up close to fifty, and everything is melting.
From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson
