How to Use cantaloupe in a Sentence

cantaloupe

noun

• Detwiler is particularly careful to avoid cantaloupe because of its webbed rind, where bacteria can easily hide.
  — Elizabeth Chuck, NBC News, 25 Oct. 2024
• Dice the cantaloupe and toss with a small bit of lime juice.
  — Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 6 Aug. 2024
• Serve it in glass coupes to show off the color of the cantaloupe.
  — Anush Elbakyan, BostonGlobe.com, 29 June 2018
• Transfer the cream to the blender and blend with the cantaloupe until smooth.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Sep. 2021
• The thought of a half cantaloupe filled with cottage cheese gives me the warm-fuzzies.
  — Ellie Krieger, Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2022
• Peel and remove the seeds from a ripe, firm cantaloupe.
  — Ellise Pierce, star-telegram.com, 8 June 2017
• There was a huge mass, the size and shape of a small cantaloupe, in Steve’s upper chest.
  — W Roy Smythe, Discover Magazine, 13 June 2014
• Next day my knee swelled to the size of a cantaloupe — partial tear of my ACL.
  — Sarah Barker, Outside Online, 30 Nov. 2020
• Peel the cantaloupe and slice in half, removing the seeds.
  — Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 6 Aug. 2024
• This has been a tough year to date to support cantaloupes.
  — oregonlive.com, 26 July 2019
• If microscale gaps were the width of a cantaloupe, nanoscale gaps would be the width of a cherry.
  — Joel Goldberg, Science | AAAS, 28 Apr. 2021
• Thus, the cantaloupe and beans made a valiant effort to sprout and then withered away.
  — Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2022
• In the hole left in my dad's chest, about the size of a small cantaloupe, Frank's heart was sewn in carefully.
  — Amanda Kingsbury, Indianapolis Star, 18 June 2017
• The perfect cantaloupe should be firm with a little bit of give.
  — Veronica Bravo, USA TODAY, 17 July 2024
• My doc removed a ton of fibroids that varied in sizes, with the largest about the size of a cantaloupe.
  — Kayla Greaves, Allure, 17 July 2023
• The rare meteorite is about the size of a cantaloupe but weighs a hefty 17 pounds (7.7 kilograms).
  — Jackie Wattles, CNN, 24 Jan. 2023
• Its eggs were also enormous (about the size of cantaloupes) and weighed about 3.5 lbs.
  — Laura Geggel, Fox News, 1 Feb. 2016
• There does not seem to be enough sun or heat here to produce even one cantaloupe per plant.
  — oregonlive.com, 26 July 2019
• And feeling a cantaloupe is OK, but not as good a sign as giving it a good snort.
  — Bill St. John, The Denver Post, 2 July 2019
• This is what a fruit salad is supposed to be, not sad chunks of cantaloupe at the bottom of a cup.
  — Kari Sonde, Washington Post, 8 July 2019
• Try cantaloupe dressed with a peach agrodolce and served with blueberries and basil.
  — Saveur Editors, Saveur, 30 July 2018
• The woodstove, set into a corner of the room, has a backdrop of stones the size of cantaloupes set halfway up the walls.
  — Joan Walden, courant.com, 1 June 2017
• Think of drinking cantaloupe juice with a splash of fizzy water.
  — Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2020
• Lunch is cottage cheese with fresh fruit, like cantaloupe or peach.
  — Jen Murphy, WSJ, 18 Aug. 2018
• My surgery had left me pretty disfigured — one breast was the size of a cantaloupe but the other was the size of a grapefruit.
  — Teen Vogue, 21 June 2019
• Ripe cantaloupes should have a musky fragrance and the end of the fruit opposite where the vine is attached should be soft, but not too soft.
  — oregonlive, 2 Sep. 2023
• Cut cantaloupes in half crosswise and scrape out seeds; discard.
  — Bon Appetit, 19 Aug. 2017
• Add cantaloupe, cucumber, and chiles and toss to coat in dressing.
  — Bon Appetit, 19 May 2017
• The cantaloupe has been hacked into, exposing seeds and pale flesh.
  — Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2023
• Everything from cantaloupe to grapes to berries tastes better dunked in this easy fruit dip recipe.
  — Bhg Test Kitchen, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024