How to Use meltdown in a Sentence

meltdown

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  • After a long day at the beach, our toddler had a major meltdown in the car on the way home.
  • Yes, the currency was on the slide and prices were soaring, but a full-on meltdown didn’t come.
    — Bloomberg.com, 7 June 2023
  • It wouldn’t have been had the Celtics avoided a meltdown in the final four minutes with a 10-point lead.
    — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 29 May 2023
  • We were warned, but who could have foreseen such an epic meltdown?
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 16 Feb. 2024
  • This doesn’t seem like a team preparing for a meltdown.
    — Daniel Kohn, Spin, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Southwest’s meltdown has caught the ire of Congress and its pilot union.
    — Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Instead, the Browns lost 31-30 in one of the biggest last-minute meltdowns in team history.
    — cleveland, 7 Aug. 2023
  • But none of it compares with the full-scale meltdown that markets witnessed 15 years ago this week.
    — WSJ, 15 Sep. 2023
  • One where a patron can have a full metal meltdown about the state of the world and still be given resources to find housing, a shower, a meal.
    — Lisa Bubert, Longreads, 27 Feb. 2024
  • After the Ticketmaster meltdown last fall, Swifties with bad blood are on tour.
    — Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2023
  • And his role in the meltdown that played out this week in the House helps explain why the Republican Party appears to be eating its own.
    — Annie Karni, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2023
  • But in the wake of that meltdown, the supervision came to be run more centrally out of Washington.
    — Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2023
  • After the defensive meltdown against Pittsburgh, the Bruins reshaped the struggling unit into one of the best in the country.
    — Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2023
  • Their children’s meltdowns, tantrums times three, come unannounced and garner stares.
    — Linda Friedel, Kansas City Star, 31 Jan. 2024
  • This year’s shakeup followed the 2020 Iowa caucus meltdown.
    — Will Weissert, Chicago Tribune, 3 July 2023
  • Put morning and late-afternoon meltdowns to bed and buy one for each member of the family.
    — Lydia Price, Travel + Leisure, 27 Nov. 2023
  • After all, these are the champions who’ve seen your spreadsheet meltdowns.
    — Cristian Esteban, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Finding help for Michael would be a win-win: Someone gets off the street, and Person is spared a potential meltdown that might scare passersby.
    — Danielle Paquette, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Jodie used to have hours-long meltdowns during transitions.
    — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 12 Feb. 2024
  • The market for a risky type of bank debt that froze over after Credit Suisse’s March meltdown is reopening.
    — Chelsey Dulaney, WSJ, 13 June 2023
  • But as Kerr would concede, all those positives make the Warriors’ latest meltdown sting even more.
    — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Dec. 2023
  • Has travel insurance learned any new tricks in the last few years that might help protect you against a summer air travel meltdown?
    — Christopher Elliott, Forbes, 6 May 2023
  • Thus, as Jeremy Allen White enjoyed a triumphant week, Melton’s stock went into meltdown.
    — Vulture, 12 Jan. 2024
  • But all agree on one fact: the risk of a meltdown that spreads radioactive poisons across the region would be greater if fission reactions at the plant had not ceased 10 months ago.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 7 July 2023
  • Nuclear plants must be continuously staffed to avoid the risk of a meltdown.
    — Nataliya Gumenyuk, The Atlantic, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Seafood has been a huge economic driver for years and has helped bring the country back to life after the crippling 2008 economic meltdown.
    — Claire Volkman, Vogue, 16 Nov. 2023
  • But that was before the Silicon Valley Bank’s meltdown.
    — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Chaos at the airport!Pro strategies for surviving the next air travel meltdown AI, self-service are taking over travel.
    — Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 2 June 2023
  • In a clip posted on her Instagram Story, the actress held her daughter — mid meltdown — while the Jonas Brothers’ music played in the background.
    — Jill Lupupa, Peoplemag, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The breakthrough of the Stanford meltdown into the mainstream consciousness has been universal.
    — Justin Vallejo, SPIN, 6 Apr. 2023

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