How to Use cantaloupe in a Sentence

cantaloupe

noun
Definition of cantaloupenext
  • Dice the cantaloupe and toss with a small bit of lime juice.
    — Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 6 Aug. 2024
  • Cut each cantaloupe half into two pieces and coarsely grate them into a large bowl.
    — Farideh Sadeghin, Saveur, 4 Sep. 2024
  • While cantaloupe offers more nutrients, honeydew tends to be sweeter.
    — Johna Burdeos, Health, 2 July 2024
  • Serve it in glass coupes to show off the color of the cantaloupe.
    — Anush Elbakyan, BostonGlobe.com, 29 June 2018
  • Transfer the cream to the blender and blend with the cantaloupe until smooth.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Sep. 2021
  • The thought of a half cantaloupe filled with cottage cheese gives me the warm-fuzzies.
    — Ellie Krieger, Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2022
  • Peel and remove the seeds from a ripe, firm cantaloupe.
    — Ellise Pierce, star-telegram.com, 8 June 2017
  • There was a huge mass, the size and shape of a small cantaloupe, in Steve’s upper chest.
    — W Roy Smythe, Discover Magazine, 13 June 2014
  • Next day my knee swelled to the size of a cantaloupe — partial tear of my ACL.
    — Sarah Barker, Outside Online, 30 Nov. 2020
  • This has been a tough year to date to support cantaloupes.
    — oregonlive.com, 26 July 2019
  • If microscale gaps were the width of a cantaloupe, nanoscale gaps would be the width of a cherry.
    — Joel Goldberg, Science | AAAS, 28 Apr. 2021
  • Thus, the cantaloupe and beans made a valiant effort to sprout and then withered away.
    — Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2022
  • In the hole left in my dad's chest, about the size of a small cantaloupe, Frank's heart was sewn in carefully.
    — Amanda Kingsbury, Indianapolis Star, 18 June 2017
  • The perfect cantaloupe should be firm with a little bit of give.
    — Veronica Bravo, USA TODAY, 17 July 2024
  • My doc removed a ton of fibroids that varied in sizes, with the largest about the size of a cantaloupe.
    — Kayla Greaves, Allure, 17 July 2023
  • The rare meteorite is about the size of a cantaloupe but weighs a hefty 17 pounds (7.7 kilograms).
    — Jackie Wattles, CNN, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Its eggs were also enormous (about the size of cantaloupes) and weighed about 3.5 lbs.
    — Laura Geggel, Fox News, 1 Feb. 2016
  • There does not seem to be enough sun or heat here to produce even one cantaloupe per plant.
    — oregonlive.com, 26 July 2019
  • And feeling a cantaloupe is OK, but not as good a sign as giving it a good snort.
    — Bill St. John, The Denver Post, 2 July 2019
  • This is what a fruit salad is supposed to be, not sad chunks of cantaloupe at the bottom of a cup.
    — Kari Sonde, Washington Post, 8 July 2019
  • Try cantaloupe dressed with a peach agrodolce and served with blueberries and basil.
    — Saveur Editors, Saveur, 30 July 2018
  • The woodstove, set into a corner of the room, has a backdrop of stones the size of cantaloupes set halfway up the walls.
    — Joan Walden, courant.com, 1 June 2017
  • Think of drinking cantaloupe juice with a splash of fizzy water.
    — Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2020
  • Lunch is cottage cheese with fresh fruit, like cantaloupe or peach.
    — Jen Murphy, WSJ, 18 Aug. 2018
  • My surgery had left me pretty disfigured — one breast was the size of a cantaloupe but the other was the size of a grapefruit.
    — Teen Vogue, 21 June 2019
  • Ripe cantaloupes should have a musky fragrance and the end of the fruit opposite where the vine is attached should be soft, but not too soft.
    — oregonlive, 2 Sep. 2023
  • Cut cantaloupes in half crosswise and scrape out seeds; discard.
    — Bon Appetit, 19 Aug. 2017
  • Add cantaloupe, cucumber, and chiles and toss to coat in dressing.
    — Bon Appetit, 19 May 2017
  • The cantaloupe has been hacked into, exposing seeds and pale flesh.
    — Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Everything from cantaloupe to grapes to berries tastes better dunked in this easy fruit dip recipe.
    — Bhg Test Kitchen, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Mar. 2023

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