How to Use de-escalate in a Sentence

de-escalate

verb

• Their goals are to de-escalate and get people help.
  — Zach Boetto, CBS News, 27 Mar. 2026
• World leaders made urgent calls to de-escalate and avoid all-out war.
  — Jon Gambrell, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2025
• Suarez said the city would work with the group to de-escalate any conflicting dates.
  — Emily Goodin, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2025
• Training tells you to de-escalate.
  — Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 30 Jan. 2026
• Instead, step away and de-escalate.
  — Chris John Amorosino, Hartford Courant, 16 Apr. 2026
• Feeling heard helps them de-escalate the anger of defending a point of view.
  — Ann Kowal Smith, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
• But when at least one party is willing to wreck things, attempts to de-escalate fail.
  — Michael S. Roth, Time, 28 Mar. 2025
• Trump and Xi struck a deal to de-escalate the trade war and these controls are set to be rolled back.
  — Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 31 Oct. 2025
• On the edge of the scrum, a counter-protester was trying to de-escalate.
  — Ruby Cramer, New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2026
• Both nations have huge incentives to work out a deal that could at least de-escalate the trade war.
  — Bob Davis, Time, 12 Apr. 2025
• One is to ignore it, another is to respond and try to de-escalate.
  — Peter Suciu, Forbes.com, 21 May 2025
• Step away and de-escalate if possible.
  — Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 30 Jan. 2026
• To de-escalate, Wesley offered to buy the man and the younger woman a beer and talk things over.
  — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
• Tensions had simmered over the summer when the two countries agreed to de-escalate.
  — Deepa Shivaram, NPR, 25 Oct. 2025
• Many world leaders called for the US to de-escalate; a few condemned the strikes.
  — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA Today, 22 June 2025
• Bunge argued that the two men failed to de-escalate the situation.
  — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 5 Jan. 2024
• And the Sheriff's deputies de-escalated that and broke that down very quickly.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 25 Aug. 2023
• Jones added that the situation could not have de-escalated when a weapon was drawn by the driver.
  — Nicole Lopez, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Feb. 2024
• On the other hand, if the conflict with Iran de-escalates and oil prices settle down soon, bond yields could fall.
  — Kamaron McNair, CNBC, 25 Sep. 2026
• Heim held out his arms in self-defense while trying to back away and de-escalate the situation.
  — Desiree Anello, PEOPLE, 27 Sep. 2026
• When faced with the risk of a spiraling conflict, rivals often find off-ramps to de-escalate crises.
  — Erik Lin-Greenberg, Foreign Affairs, 8 Oct. 2024
• Unless the trade war de-escalates in the next few weeks, the firewall will come down, and a recession will ensue.
  — Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 May 2025
• Neither side would de-escalate, but neither side seemed willing to take everyone over the brink.
  — Elliot Ackerman, WIRED, 12 Feb. 2024
• Diplomatic doors remain open—but only if both parties agree to de-escalate.
  — Amir Daftari, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Aug. 2025
• This is really just trying to roll back or de-escalate what had been escalated over the past year and a bit.
  — CBS News, 25 Jan. 2026
• Officers tried to de-escalate the situation for more than an hour.
  — Katie Langford, Denver Post, 8 Apr. 2026
• Marcello tries to de-escalate the confrontation while Lenù looks on, scared.
  — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 28 Oct. 2024
• In the process, a policy intended to de-escalate will serve only to appease.
  — Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
• Without guardrails, red lines or a strategy to de-escalate, further conflict remains in the cards.
  — Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2024
• Riri tries to de-escalate the situation, which might have worked if Natalie didn’t start to glitch.
  — Stacia Brown, Vulture, 26 June 2025