Adjective : a mellow neighborhood. ,a mellow teacher who is very popular with her students.    From Dictionary.com. 

“I daresay,” agreed Lady Armitage, more sharply, but her expression mellowed into thoughtfulness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Blackstone Key] Reference

To say that the Libyan strongman has "mellowed" is an assessment based merely on lack of publicity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mail Call: A New Food Pyramid] Reference

Young started out hot in the beginning of the season then kind of mellowed out the rest of the year.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jake Reiner: Dodger Free Agent Picks] Reference

I'm not sure the trailer really excites me though, in fact it has kind of mellowed my excitement for the film.    From Wordnik.com.  [Filmstalker: Update: The Box trailer online in high definition] Reference

He adds that despite the size of the market, investors '"expectations have kind of mellowed about Google's ability to succeed in" China.    From Wordnik.com.  [Google Searches for Fix in China] Reference

Shah explores the history of the disease and explains why malaria hasn't "mellowed" with age.    From Wordnik.com.  [DealBook] Reference

Even once I got a good lead, I just kept at it and kind of mellowed down a bit so as not to risk the boat at all.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Record-Courier - Top Stories] Reference

"mellowed" in his years on the board, and now has the drive to lead the board with the understanding to run it collectively.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference

"People ask me if I've mellowed with age," he says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Going Like Gangbusters] Reference

Masticot deepened and mellowed with brown ochre.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets] Reference

Harsh rhetoric offends a nation mellowed by victory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dream On, Democrats] Reference

The daily consideration of possible death had mellowed Hugh.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference

Now, at the advanced age of 27, Oberst seems to have mellowed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bright Eyes: The Mellowing of a Protest Singer] Reference

This is the mellowed draught we quaff our longings to assuage.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Hanging Fork and Other Poems] Reference

Kravis himself has mellowed into something of an industrial statesman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barbarian No More] Reference

I mellowed to a point and got high so often, there was no place to go.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Woman's Journey From Homeless To Harvard] Reference

The show has mellowed and deepened since it was at the Barbican in 2008.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Disappearing Number] Reference

Lack concedes that "I did tear up the rug a bit," but insists he's "mellowed.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Right Choice?] Reference

Four housebound days later, the family had baked cookies and generally mellowed out.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Parent Trap] Reference

It would be a mistake to think that reaching the age of 79 has mellowed James Watson.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reading the Book of Jim] Reference

Apparently, the hostility between the Burrs and the Hamiltons has not mellowed with time.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Beat: The Hamilton-Burr Feud Continues] Reference

She wore a broad-brimmed jimmy hat and an old gingham dress faded to a soft mellowed pink.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Motor Maids at Sunrise Camp] Reference

The orchards budded and bloomed, and mellowed into perfect fruition their luscious globes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch] Reference

 The outraged croaks in the lunchroom mellowed to a solicitous chirp in the school office.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Egg] Reference

But in the last five months, her opposition has mellowed into an enthusiasm for anything Korean.    From Wordnik.com.  [Loving Our Neighbors] Reference

The horse locked his knee and had none of my nonsense until I mellowed out and established trust.    From Wordnik.com.  [Caroline Walker: Wyatt Webb's Horses Will Change Your Life If You Let Them] Reference

Finally, Cheney dryly remarked, "You guys should have known him 30 years ago, before he mellowed.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Chemistry In The War Cabinet] Reference

  If I'm fired up, probably siding with red, but if I'm all mellowed out, then I suppose it'd be blue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roy G. Biv] Reference

Politically, the sangh parivar seemed to have mellowed since the BJP came to power in New Delhi in 1998.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gods In The Classroom] Reference

Though friends say he's mellowed since the surgery -- he has taken up golf-there's little evidence of that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Atlanta Is Right On Schedule] Reference

He too reeked of ceremony, but an easier kind that had mellowed from habit and an ancestral load of orthodoxy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cool Aunt] Reference

But upon his return in 1993, Steinbrenner had either mellowed or was smart enough to start trusting his underlings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yankees Owner George Steinbrenner Dies At 80] Reference

"I bring a mature, serene, mellowed persona that in fact I think is rather well suited to the job I'm seeking to do.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Canada's Mrs. Thatcher?] Reference

And now I've mellowed, and I have the ability to say, "I'd like to talk about this, and I'd really rather not talk about that.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Periscope] Reference

But the outrageous, mesmerizing "Bitter Moon" makes it clear that Polanski has neither mellowed as an artist nor lost his licks.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man Who Got Away] Reference