How to Use de-escalate in a Sentence

de-escalate

verb

• 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
• 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
• And so the work to de-escalate is work that is ongoing.
  — Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 12 May 2024
• All the while, the White House insists Israel and Hezbollah still have time to step back and de-escalate.
  — Aamer Madhani, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2024
• The attack was the biggest since March 2020, when Russia and Turkey agreed to a deal to de-escalate the conflict.
  — Maya Gebeily, USA TODAY, 29 Nov. 2024
• Feeling heard helps them de-escalate the anger of defending a point of view.
  — Ann Kowal Smith, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
• Feeling heard helps them de-escalate the anger of defending a point of view.
  — Ann Kowal Smith, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2024
• And the Sheriff's deputies de-escalated that and broke that down very quickly.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 25 Aug. 2023
• But when at least one party is willing to wreck things, attempts to de-escalate fail.
  — Michael S. Roth, Time, 28 Mar. 2025
• Bunge argued that the two men failed to de-escalate the situation.
  — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 5 Jan. 2024
• 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
• Wood told the council that the U.S. aims to de-escalate the situation but that Iran's actions cannot go unanswered.
  — NBC News, 15 Apr. 2024
• Steve is one of the first men to step in, sensing that things are spiraling, as the ladies scramble to de-escalate the situation.
  — Shelby Stewart, Essence, 18 Feb. 2025
• 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
• The police attempted to de-escalate the scene by first ordering him to drop his lethal weapon, then employing a taser and the threat of a police dog.
  — U T Opinion, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Feb. 2025
• The officers were aggressive from the start and did not attempt to de-escalate the situation, the suit claims.
  — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Mar. 2023
• Starmer said in his own statement that he was deeply concerned by the situation in the region and called on all parties to de-escalate.
  — Greg Norman, Fox News, 13 Aug. 2024
• As Carson tried to de-escalate the situation, the suspect swung a knife at him, Kenny said.
  — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 4 Oct. 2023
• Blinken stressed the need to de-escalate tensions in the West Bank and expressed his sympathies for Thursday's attack in Jerusalem that killed three civilians.
  — Vivian Salama, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2023
• The move is part of the rebels' ongoing effort to de-escalate tensions following a ceasefire in Gaza.
  — Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 25 Jan. 2025
• Marcello tries to de-escalate the confrontation while Lenù looks on, scared.
  — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 28 Oct. 2024
• But the official said the parties also discussed how to de-escalate the fighting in the more likely scenario at the moment of no Gaza ceasefire deal in the near term.
  — Barak Ravid, Axios, 4 Sep. 2024
• Neither side would de-escalate, but neither side seemed willing to take everyone over the brink.
  — Elliot Ackerman, WIRED, 12 Feb. 2024
• Why had the officers not tried to de-escalate the situation?
  — Tim Arango, New York Times, 8 June 2023
• For months, that response never came and tensions appeared to de-escalate given the grave consequences of an all-out war in the Middle East.
  — Helen Regan, CNN, 2 Oct. 2024
• As the dispute grew heated, the deli worker stepped between his feuding customers in an effort to de-escalate the fight, only for the suspect to spit in the victim’s face.
  — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 3 Jan. 2025
• In the process, a policy intended to de-escalate will serve only to appease.
  — Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
• The witnesses added that Sibley tried to de-escalate the situation before he was stabbed in the torso.
  — Matt Lavietes, NBC News, 2 Aug. 2023
• Without guardrails, red lines or a strategy to de-escalate, further conflict remains in the cards.
  — Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2024
• Every couple fights, but the ones who stay together are those who know how to de-escalate tension and, most importantly, reconnect.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025