How to Use meltdown in a Sentence

meltdown

1 of 2 noun

• After a long day at the beach, our toddler had a major meltdown in the car on the way home.
• And at the heart of it all is a very frazzled, very rich woman on the verge of a complete meltdown.
  — Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 13 Sep. 2024
• Yes, the currency was on the slide and prices were soaring, but a full-on meltdown didn’t come.
  — Bloomberg.com, 7 June 2023
• It wouldn’t have been had the Celtics avoided a meltdown in the final four minutes with a 10-point lead.
  — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 29 May 2023
• Friday’s meltdown marks the largest lead the Sox have blown since last September 6 against the Rays.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 27 May 2022
• The recall hinged on the idea that San Francisco was in meltdown and the DA had lost control.
  — The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 16 Nov. 2022
• We were warned, but who could have foreseen such an epic meltdown?
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 16 Feb. 2024
• The second-year coach wasn't around for that epic Super Bowl meltdown.
  — Paul Newberry, ajc, 12 Sep. 2022
• This doesn’t seem like a team preparing for a meltdown.
  — Daniel Kohn, Spin, 6 Sep. 2023
• Southwest’s meltdown has caught the ire of Congress and its pilot union.
  — Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 31 Mar. 2023
• The Ravens will host the Denver Broncos, who can’t score on their best day and seemed on the verge of a full meltdown in losing 23-10 to the Panthers.
  — Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 28 Nov. 2022
• Instead, the Browns lost 31-30 in one of the biggest last-minute meltdowns in team history.
  — cleveland, 7 Aug. 2023
• But none of it compares with the full-scale meltdown that markets witnessed 15 years ago this week.
  — WSJ, 15 Sep. 2023
• After Friday’s latest meltdown for the Yankees, the team’s lead over the Red Sox was down to three in the loss column.
  — Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 6 July 2024
• In the hours before Trump spoke, his party was in meltdown mode on Capitol Hill.
  — Time, 16 Nov. 2022
• More Fortune coverage of the FTX meltdown here, here and here.
  — Alan Murray, Fortune, 18 Nov. 2022
• This week’s meltdown is not the first time the company has found itself in this predicament.
  — Matt Stiles, CNN, 29 Dec. 2022
• Bastian claimed CrowdStrike was nowhere to be found during the meltdown.
  — Ramishah Maruf, CNN, 7 Aug. 2024
• To quote Roosevelt, in the past tense, The only fear to fear was fear itself — fear of an economic meltdown.
  — Laurence Kotlikoff, Forbes, 11 July 2022
• For passengers, one big lesson from the meltdown is to have a backup plan.
  — Peter Greenberg, CBS News, 6 Jan. 2023
• The scene of disaster and the death toll left in the wake of Fukushima was scary, but neither were caused by nuclear meltdown.
  — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 27 July 2022
• One where a patron can have a full metal meltdown about the state of the world and still be given resources to find housing, a shower, a meal.
  — Lisa Bubert, Longreads, 27 Feb. 2024
• The video of her breakdown went viral, turning her meltdown into a meme.
  — Frank Rizzo, Variety, 31 July 2024
• Those brands would fear a situation like the April 2023 tech meltdown for its Love is Blind live reunion show.
  — Jason Clinkscales, Sportico.com, 9 Aug. 2024
• Its list of allies was thin, and the government was scrutinizing it for its role in the FTX meltdown.
  — Mitchell Clark, The Verge, 8 Mar. 2023
• In the wake of their relievers’ workload and reoccurring meltdown, the club made a pair of roster moves ahead of its game against the Phillies.
  — Patrick Saunders, The Denver Post, 24 May 2024
• After the Ticketmaster meltdown last fall, Swifties with bad blood are on tour.
  — Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2023
• And his role in the meltdown that played out this week in the House helps explain why the Republican Party appears to be eating its own.
  — Annie Karni, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2023
• That’s precisely how Japan responded to its 1990s bad-loan meltdown — and why Tokyo is still dealing with the fallout today.
  — William Pesek, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
• But the bit sent some attendees — and even more online spectators — into a moralistic meltdown.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 5 Dec. 2024

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melt down

2 of 2 verb

• The starter would give the Angels a chance and the bullpen would melt down.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2022
• In the two losses, the middle of the bullpen had melted down before the Rangers could get the ball to Smith.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 24 May 2023
• Which guy is least likely to melt down if things get sticky?
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Sep. 2021
• The Sun Devils, trailing 32-16 with five minutes left in the first half, caused the Beavers to melt down with a full-court press.
  — oregonlive, 14 Jan. 2023
• Some salvagers dug through piles of watches looking for gold to melt down and sell.
  — CNN, 10 May 2021
• She will get overwhelmed, melt down, and millions of people will die.
  — Washington Examiner Staff, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 2 Nov. 2024
• That’s being able to face a person or a lawn sign and not completely melt down.
  — Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2024
• Canadian pure gold coins, cut and ready to be melted down.
  — Joseph Bien-Kahn, WIRED, 19 Sep. 2024
• At least the Scarlet Knights didn’t melt down until the final quarter.
  — Mike Preston, baltimoresun.com, 16 Mar. 2021
• For once, the Detroit Lions did not wait till the fourth quarter to melt down with a series of hideous mistakes.
  — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 20 Sep. 2020
• While that was happening, the 21-year old Kostyuk appeared to be melting down.
  — Ivan Carter, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Mar. 2024
• Stein did not share the stage with Biden on Friday at a rally that took place as Democrats across the country were melting down.
  — Francesca Chambers, USA TODAY, 2 July 2024
• All their drinking water had to be melted down from snow.
  — Sarah Kaplan, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2023
• This is how about 70% of steel is made in the US, using electricity to melt down metal to make steel.
  — Rachel Ramirez, CNN, 23 June 2024
• Water from the dam’s reservoir had been used to cool the reactors, which now could overheat and melt down if turned on.
  — Richard Engel, NBC News, 22 Feb. 2024
• Make your own candles by melting down the wax and adding essential oils.
  — Claire Hoppe Norgaard, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Oct. 2024
• But plenty of teams have melted down during the final round.
  — Ndaschel, oregonlive, 10 May 2023
• If destroyed, that could lead to the reactor melting down.
  — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 6 July 2023
• The steel pieces will them be hauled to a salvage yard and melted down for use in future infrastructure projects.
  — Natalie Wallington, Kansas City Star, 18 June 2024
• The Black man who owned the foundry that ultimately melted down the statue described that work as an honor.
  — Theresa Vargas, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2023
• Yes, that video of your child melting down in Target or that photo of them naked and reading a book on the potty can seem too good not to post at the moment.
  — Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 21 July 2023
• In their view, the potential upside of watching your opponent melt down is greater than the risk of tripping up.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 18 May 2024
• Italy’s is almost ten percent smaller, and its financial system may be the next to melt down.
  — Andrew Moravcsik, Foreign Affairs, 17 Oct. 2016
• Forget chopping, just use a box grater to shred squash, garlic and onion to melt down into this delicious sauce.
  — Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2021
• But before fans melt down faster than Gruyère in fondue, that doesn’t mean he’s done with entertainment.
  — Jennifer McClellan, USA TODAY, 26 Apr. 2022
• As the rapper coined the slogan Hotties for Harris at the Atlanta event, conservatives got fired up to the point of melting down.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 31 July 2024
• In 1877, a French fisherman dredged up a bronze ram, decorated with Medusa’s infamous snake hair, and sent it to a foundry to melt down.
  — Laura Trethewey, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Sep. 2023
• And the government literally said, the health care system is going to melt down?
  — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 15 June 2023
• CrowdStrike has blamed the IT outage on a bug that released a botched update and melted down the world’s computer systems.
  — Aaron Gregg, Washington Post, 24 July 2024
• Oil plunges after Israel attacks Iran Gas prices could be poised to fall even further in the coming days because the oil market is melting down again.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 29 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Jan 2025