MELLOW in a Sentence

Learn MELLOW from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
32 example sentences for MELLOW, such as:
1. He was looking tolerably mellow.
2. They were all beginning to feel mellow.
3. Paul's certainly mellowed over the years.
4. The colours become mellow as the sun went down.
5. The afternoon was dragging towards its mellow hour.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of MELLOW
mellow
 v.  soften, make mellow
 ad.  (obsolete) in a mellow manner
Classic Sentence: (25 in 2 pages)
1  They were all beginning to feel mellow.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In COUNTERPARTS
2  "A beautiful, pure, sweet, mellow English tenor," said Aunt Kate with enthusiasm.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE DEAD
3  It was very low at first, with deep mellow notes that seemed to fall singly upon one's ear.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 4
4  The mellow November sun came streaming into the room.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 14
5  It was tea-time, and the mellow light of the huge, lace-covered lamp that stood on the table lit up the delicate china and hammered silver of the service at which the duchess was presiding.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17
6  The afternoon was dragging towards its mellow hour.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
7  When they told her about the robin and the first flight of the young ones she laughed a motherly little mellow laugh in her throat.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
8  He was looking tolerably mellow.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
9  They both got powerful mellow, but I noticed the king didn't get mellow enough to forget to remember to not deny about hiding the money-bag again.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX.
10  He went back to its mouth, began at one end of the keyboard and felt his way down into the mellow thunder, as far as he could go.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VII
11  She laughed her mellow, easy laugh, that was either very artless or very comprehending, one never quite knew which.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: II
12  She needed the sun to mellow and temper her mood to the sticking point.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXV
13  On a mellow evening in September, I was coming from the garden with a heavy basket of apples which I had been gathering.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
14  Gimmerton chapel bells were still ringing; and the full, mellow flow of the beck in the valley came soothingly on the ear.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
15  After that, if the night was mellow I strolled down Madison Avenue past the old Murray Hill Hotel and over Thirty-third Street to the Pennsylvania Station.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
Example Sentence:
1  The leaves looked golden in the mellow afternoon light.
2  The colours become mellow as the sun went down.
3  I'd had two glasses of wine and I was feeling mellow.
4  His voice was deep and mellow and his speech had a soothing and comforting quality.
5  Now the master, mellow almost to the verge of geniality, put his chair aside, turned his back to the audience, and began to draw a map of America on the blackboard, to exercise the geography class upon.
6  Paul's certainly mellowed over the years.
7  The entire valley at my right hand was full of pasture- fields, and cornfields, and wood; and a glittering stream ran zigzag through the varied shades of green, the mellowing grain, and the somber woodland, the clear and sunny lea.