variants
or less commonly caldron
1
: a large kettle or boiler
2
: something resembling a boiling cauldron in intensity or degree of agitation
a cauldron of intense emotions
Examples of cauldron in a Sentence
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Reminders of the 2002 Winter Games are nestled throughout the city, from a towering cauldron overlooking the valley to an Olympic emblem stamped on manhole covers downtown.
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Hannah Schoenbaum, Quartz, 10 Apr. 2024
The slowly bubbling cauldron gradually perfumes the air through the night, spreading through the sleeping house like an open secret.
—Benjamin Dubow, Longreads, 20 Feb. 2024
These ceramic mugs are available in the shape of the ghost, pumpkin, black cat, mummy, skull, and cauldron, ensuring each shopper will find their preferred Halloween-appropriate shape.
—Grace Smith, Southern Living, 8 Sep. 2023
Add a cauldron and your kids will have their own pot of gold at the end of the game.
—Christopher Murray, Fox News, 11 Mar. 2024
Toss all the deficiencies into a cauldron — the inefficiency, the lack of toughness, the floundering finishes and the talent that doesn’t translate to victories — and the result is an undeniable, enduring mediocrity.
—Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 7 Mar. 2024
Within this cauldron of hate, entire towns are also seeing their libraries gutted—and in some cases shuttered completely—due to the unrelenting harassment and maligning of librarians, who are invaluable resources to so many in their local communities.
—Janai S. Nelson and Melanie Willingham-Jaggers, Parents, 24 Jan. 2024
In a video shot by an NBC News team on the ground, several dozen Palestinians — some wrapped in jackets and others barefoot — are seen waiting as workers prepared large cauldrons of soup with pasta shells to hand out.
—NBC News, 20 Jan. 2024
The camera pans down to the depths of hell to find the artist stewing a cauldron of limbs before returning to heaven to catch a basketball game between Lil Nas X and the devil.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 12 Jan. 2024
Hannah Schoenbaum, Quartz, 10 Apr. 2024
The slowly bubbling cauldron gradually perfumes the air through the night, spreading through the sleeping house like an open secret.
—Benjamin Dubow, Longreads, 20 Feb. 2024
These ceramic mugs are available in the shape of the ghost, pumpkin, black cat, mummy, skull, and cauldron, ensuring each shopper will find their preferred Halloween-appropriate shape.
—Grace Smith, Southern Living, 8 Sep. 2023
Add a cauldron and your kids will have their own pot of gold at the end of the game.
—Christopher Murray, Fox News, 11 Mar. 2024
Toss all the deficiencies into a cauldron — the inefficiency, the lack of toughness, the floundering finishes and the talent that doesn’t translate to victories — and the result is an undeniable, enduring mediocrity.
—Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 7 Mar. 2024
Within this cauldron of hate, entire towns are also seeing their libraries gutted—and in some cases shuttered completely—due to the unrelenting harassment and maligning of librarians, who are invaluable resources to so many in their local communities.
—Janai S. Nelson and Melanie Willingham-Jaggers, Parents, 24 Jan. 2024
In a video shot by an NBC News team on the ground, several dozen Palestinians — some wrapped in jackets and others barefoot — are seen waiting as workers prepared large cauldrons of soup with pasta shells to hand out.
—NBC News, 20 Jan. 2024
The camera pans down to the depths of hell to find the artist stewing a cauldron of limbs before returning to heaven to catch a basketball game between Lil Nas X and the devil.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 12 Jan. 2024
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“Cauldron.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cauldron. Accessed 23 Apr. 2024.
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