How to Use melee in a Sentence

melee

noun

• During the melee, the suspect grabbed Wali, threw him to the ground and punched him in the head.
  — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2023
• Ezra's heart, lungs and brain were injured in the melee.
  — Elise Brisco, USA TODAY, 1 Dec. 2021
• He was sentenced to 365 days in jail for his part in the melee.
  — Elizabeth Keogh, New York Daily News, 4 Feb. 2025
• The melee prompted a number of fans to leave the stands and rush the floor as well.
  — Erick Taylor, Arkansas Online, 2 Feb. 2022
• The Rangers came out of the melee with a power play, but that didn’t lead to a goal.
  — Peter Baugh, The Athletic, 18 Dec. 2024
• Jackson was one of the three people who died in the melee.
  — Christine Fernando, USA TODAY, 10 June 2022
• Police vans and garbage bins have been set ablaze in the melee.
  — Jasmine Baehr, Fox News, 30 July 2024
• By the end of the seditious melee, five people were dead.
  — Lauren Rankin, refinery29.com, 17 Jan. 2021
• Phillips won a royal tug of war, but four men were shot in the melee.
  — Simon Usborne, Town & Country, 18 Jan. 2023
• The melee took place in the midst of another kind of war, one not of words.
  — Caroline Fraser, The New York Review of Books, 3 Nov. 2020
• Video showed what appeared to be a melee in the middle of the roadway.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2023
• Chevy avoided the melee by going four-wide at the top of Turn 1.
  — Edgar Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 30 Aug. 2020
• Some of the other teens involved in the melee were still in the area, while others had fled.
  — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 June 2022
• In the melee, a Filipino sailor’s thumb got sliced off by a sharp piece of metal.
  — Marites Dañguilan Vitug, Foreign Affairs, 18 Sep. 2024
• The Boogaards did not see Wednesday’s melee at the arena where their son used to play.
  — New York Times, 7 May 2021
• A year later, this melee hangs over the race for mayor.
  — Matt Canham, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Oct. 2021
• During the melee, a Montgomery man pulled out a gun and fired a shot into the air.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 13 Sep. 2021
• That’s when a shirtless white man rushed to punch Pickett, which sparked the melee that spilled all across the dock.
  — Alexis Jones, Peoplemag, 26 Sep. 2023
• But there are more than 630 people people charged in the Jan. 6 melee.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 14 Oct. 2021
• Forzano was the target of the first use of bear spray the Union-Tribune witnessed during the melee.
  — Andrew Dyer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 July 2021
• The city seemed determined to avoid a repeat of that melee.
  — Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2021
• Amid the melee, two Uyghur employees were killed by a Han mob.
  — David Remnic, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2021
• At the time of the melee, Silva-Prentice was assigned to the P2 unit at Souza, walled off from the mayhem.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 14 Aug. 2021
• Yet commanders sent them right back into the melee all the same.
  — Thomas Gibbons-Neff, New York Times, 16 Dec. 2022
• The melee is a mess to sort out, but my guess is that alcohol was involved.
  — Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2023
• Others are seen in the video crouching down in stands, some filming the melee with cell phones.
  — USA TODAY, 13 July 2024
• In the melee, Redden slammed Holthus’ head against the wall, struck her once on the head and pulled out some of her hair, the document said.
  — Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 6 Jan. 2024
• Mayor Lori Lightfoot agreed that the melee had nothing to do with a protest.
  — Don Babwin, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Aug. 2020
• The melee that followed would wind through two courts, drag on for eight years and cost the building a small fortune in legal fees.
  — David Segal, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2025
• From thereon, a melee began between a large number of the wedding guests.
  — Kimberlee Speakman, People.com, 12 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 25 Mar 2025