How to Use melee in a Sentence

melee

noun

• It’s like a melee of bone and bile, flesh and fever, every organ taking shots at the next guy.
  — Kimberly Potts, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2021
• Amid the melee, two Uyghur employees were killed by a Han mob.
  — David Remnic, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 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
• In the melee, counterprotesters could be seen spraying mace while members of the anti-vaccine rally screamed death threats.
  — al, 14 Aug. 2021
• Choosing between different melee weapons like swords and shields, paired with long range pistols and wands, has an impact in how the action plays out.
  — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2024
• Seven people died in the melee, including a number who fell from a plane that was taking off and another in the landing-gear area.
  — Marcus Yam, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2021
• The Giants garnered national attention when a melee broke out during the early days of training camp last month.
  — Art Stapleton, USA TODAY, 21 Aug. 2021
• Neither prisoner from Cell 15 was involved in the Jan. 10 melee.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 18 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
• Authorities say the melee contributed to the deaths of five people and injuries to more than 150 police officers.
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2021
• At least one member of the right-wing group, Allen Swinney, was seen pointing a handgun at counter-protesters during the melee, and police did little to intervene.
  — oregonlive, 20 Aug. 2021
• Two armed Afghans were shot dead after approaching U.S. Marines in the melee and video images appeared to show people possibly falling from a plane.
  — James Hookway, WSJ, 18 Aug. 2021
• Some blamed the players for the melee, some blamed the fans and the guy who threw the drink apologized in 2006 for the whole thing (and was the only person to serve jail time related to the incident).
  — Tyler J. Davis, Detroit Free Press, 28 July 2021
• At least 140 officers were injured — some permanently — and five people died either in the melee or in the hours after, including a police officer.
  — Sarah D. Wire, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2021
• 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
• The melee prompted a number of fans to leave the stands and rush the floor as well.
  — Erick Taylor, Arkansas Online, 2 Feb. 2022
• 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
• Phillips won a royal tug of war, but four men were shot in the melee.
  — Simon Usborne, Town & Country, 18 Jan. 2023
• Video showed what appeared to be a melee in the middle of the roadway.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2023
• 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
• 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
• The city seemed determined to avoid a repeat of that melee.
  — Washington Post, 31 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

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024