mellow
adjective
soft, sweet, and full-flavored from ripeness, as fruit.
mellows
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present tense formof mellow (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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And Joq is genuinely fascinated by the way hickory smoke mellows and rounds out a pungent blue cheese.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025
"Can y'all come straighten it up over here? It's not looking luxurious," Sean "Diddy" Combs says in a voice note to his personal assistants as R&B music mellows in the background.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2025
The spinach mellows everything out, and adding heavy cream to the eggs helps them to bake up nice and fluffy, kind of like a quiche, instead of dry and gritty.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 18, 2023
Chopped basil leaves are added to the freshly cooked chicken, which mellows the herb’s flavor as the leaves gently wilt while we cook sugar snap peas.
From Washington Times ● May 2, 2023
Kings' titles commonly begin by force, Which time wears off, and mellows into right; So power, which, in one age, is tyranny, Is ripened, in the next, to true succession: She's in possession.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 06 by Sir Walter Scott
