melting pot

Example Sentences

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Often, Lam’s canvases are cultural melting pots whose ingredients refuse to melt.

From The Wall Street Journal

Mr. Sayles notes that the U.S. is often quaintly likened to a melting pot; the reality of the country’s boiling admixture is much more dangerous and much more powerful.

From The Wall Street Journal

Ellaird Bailey, 77, a retired technician at a telecommunications company, settled here with his wife in 1984 so his children could grow up in this "melting pot."

From Barron's

In the melting pot that was Chicago, immigrant parents brought their children to him because he always found a way to communicate with them and care for their children, often for free.

From The Wall Street Journal

That’s diversity, the melting pot, the freedom we hold dear to be whatever we are.

From Los Angeles Times