How to Use melting pot in a Sentence

melting pot

noun
  • And this would be the place to do it — the United States, the world’s melting pot.
    Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 21 June 2018
  • The energy, the flavor, the food, the music, the melting pot...
    Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 6 June 2024
  • If the United States is a melting pot, this is the furnace.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 16 Feb. 2024
  • The days of priding ourselves as a melting pot were over in 2016.
    Star Tribune, 1 Oct. 2020
  • New York is such a melting pot, all sorts of people, all races and creeds.
    1843, 5 June 2020
  • Not to pretend that the world was some sort of wonderful melting pot back in the 1870s.
    Liza Foreman, Variety, 10 Oct. 2021
  • As the late, great Jonathan Gold pointed out, L.A is the anti-melting pot.
    Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2022
  • It’s a melting pot of attendees who go for the food and leave with new friendships.
    Eric Fuller, Forbes, 16 May 2022
  • For Nashville to be this big melting pot of not just people, but of artistry, it’s been so much fun.
    Spin Contributor, SPIN, 14 Dec. 2023
  • It’s a melting pot of sound in which the flavors remain distinct.
    Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 June 2021
  • His love of Indian food and bagels is all about the culinary melting pot of New York City.
    Beth D'addono, NOLA.com, 23 Nov. 2020
  • But where the Catalans are proudly Catalan, Madrid is more of a melting pot.
    Christian L. Wright, WSJ, 29 Apr. 2022
  • This event is a melting pot worthy of the United States itself.
    Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 17 Mar. 2022
  • The holder was like a stove lid with a hole in it on which the melting pot could be set and a cook stove used to melt bullet metal.
    Outdoor Life, 23 Nov. 2023
  • With more than 80 ethnic groups, the country has always been a melting pot.
    Samuel Gebre, Bloomberg.com, 24 Sep. 2020
  • Turns out, Place de la République is a bit of a melting pot, a must-skate location for anyone who brings a board to Paris.
    Álvaro Valiño, Washington Post, 30 July 2024
  • The list of nations will form a melting pot across stadiums for this week’s and the following week’s games.
    Marc Bona, cleveland, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Isn’t a restaurant a melting pot of ideas and cuisines and influences anyway?
    Kate Kassin, Bon Appétit, 6 Mar. 2023
  • What a lot of people fail to realize is that New England is such a big melting pot.
    Jeneé Osterheldt, BostonGlobe.com, 26 May 2023
  • While some might write off the platform as a melting pot of memes and dance-off videos, its spirit is more old-fashioned than some might think.
    Frances Solá-Santiago, refinery29.com, 26 June 2021
  • The ’80s in London, of course, was a melting pot of talent and exuberant fun.
    Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 17 Sep. 2024
  • And that's what New York is, a melting pot for all these different races and religions.
    Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 3 Dec. 2023
  • How does Atlanta defy stereotypes of the South? Atlanta is a melting pot.
    New York Times, 12 Dec. 2020
  • The city has long been a melting pot, its port exchanging goods and ideas with everywhere in the Mediterranean (and beyond).
    Federica Bocco, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 May 2024
  • Hanau, a melting pot, was the site of a February 2020 shooting spree where nine people – who had ethnic roots – were killed.
    Fox News, 2 Oct. 2021
  • Optional restaurants are as much a melting pot as the staffers themselves.
    Marc Bona, cleveland, 31 Aug. 2022
  • My Dedsec cell looks like a true melting pot of London society in terms of race, gender, and even class.
    Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 28 Oct. 2020
  • America is a melting pot and has flourished because of it.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 23 June 2024
  • The Dallas music scene has always been hard to pin down, and Deep Ellum is the city’s musical melting pot.
    Dallas News, 21 Feb. 2022
  • Living in Barcelona’s Raval, a humble but rambunctious multi-ethnic melting pot, Ana, an artist and single mother, battles to bring up her daughter without giving up on her dreams.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 1 Oct. 2024

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