Sentence examples for word melee from inspiring English sources

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This is similar to the English word melee, but shorter vowel sounds.

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So what did it all – the millions of the words, the melee of "sources" – add up too?

Ed Park, in an essay on D. & D. (included in the anthology "Bound to Last"), celebrates the magnificent vocabulary of the game, which introduced young players to words such as "melee," "portcullis," "kobold," "thaumaturge," "paladin," "charisma," "halberd," "wyvern," "homunculus," "scimitar," "buckler," "basilisk," and "cockatrice".

Both the mayor and the police commissioner, Bernard B. Kerik, had strong words for the firefighters involved in the melee, and their commissioner, Thomas Von Essen, apologized for their behavior.

In other words, no sign of the kind of melee happening in the art space just across the street, where the Bent Festival, the annual circus of the art of "circuit bending," was happening.

The dust has hardly settled from the melee surrounding the Dutch magazine Jackie, after it referred to Rihanna as a "N-word Bitch".

"So it's all about melees and conflicts and fighting, out of which the novelist Auguste Le Breton made the word 'rififi.' "He went on to write 'Rififi in Tokyo,' 'Rififi in San Domingo,' 'Rififi in Flatbush' and so on".

Cue melee.

A melee broke out.

First racial melee.

It was a melee.

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