Sentence examples for was melted down from inspiring English sources
verb
To change (or to be changed) from a solid state to a liquid state, usually by a gradual heat.
- I melted butter to make a cake.
When the sculpture was melted down, the council got £17,000 for the scrap metal.
Much of her silverware was melted down after her death and her chic dresses were given to her chambermaids.
Most of France's royal gold was melted down or disappeared during the wars of religion and the French Revolution.
During the 1645-51 civil war, almost every silver and gold object in the country was melted down or smashed.
Like so many of Cellini's works in precious metals, this was melted down, but its design is recorded in three 18th-century drawings in the British Museum, London.
(A new statue was built in the late 1940s after the original was melted down for metal in World War II).
"One time Johnny was melting down and this woman approached me.
The group admitted earlier this year it was melting down gold jewellery stocks to raise cash.
Except that the fellow-Serb was melting down, in the midst of his dire match against Tsonga.
"Just the pressure of it was like I was melting down ― because what's at stake here is my kids".
"I'm pretty sure it has been melted down".
