How to Use defuse in a Sentence

defuse

verb

• Skilled negotiators helped defuse the crisis.
• Now’s the time for a Roth conversion One way to defuse the bomb?
  — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2024
• For one thing, the White House was slow to try to defuse Trump’s attacks on Mueller.
  — Time, 20 Mar. 2018
• This led to a tense standoff that police had to defuse.
  — Parth M.n., WIRED, 23 Nov. 2023
• As the chaos unfurled on-screen, the program scrambled to defuse the tension in the room.
  — Sarah Grant, Rolling Stone, 28 Mar. 2022
• Part of the mission of the group is to get kids laughing, which in itself is good to defuse stress.
  — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Aug. 2020
• The man’s 52-year-old cousin tried to defuse the situation, then Tate swung at the 52-year-old.
  — Stephanie Casanova, chicagotribune.com, 14 Jan. 2022
• This should quickly defuse any drama and get you both on the same page again.
  — Author: Wayne and Wanda, Alaska Dispatch News, 14 Oct. 2017
• For warriors across time, there have always been tunes to march to, and tunes to defuse the tension.
  — Lily Rothman, Time, 27 Sep. 2017
• Along with the wider middle seat, the S1 setup could defuse the silent fight with a stranger for control of the armrest.
  — Alex Davies, WIRED, 10 July 2019
• Those bombs were identical and equipped with timers and bomb squads were able to defuse them.
  — Hadeel Al-Shalchi, NPR, 21 Feb. 2025
• Washington and Ankara struck the deal in June to defuse tensions.
  — Fox News, 28 Sep. 2018
• The guys came to her defense and Cox tried to defuse the situation.
  — Sandra Baker, star-telegram.com, 29 May 2017
• Congress needs to act to defuse this ticking time bomb.
  — Jacob J. Lew For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 8 Oct. 2021
• There are two near-term tests of whether the Buenos Aires agreement will defuse trade tensions.
  — Bob Davis, WSJ, 9 Dec. 2018
• Rayford tried to defuse a fight inside the club, Jackson said, and shots were fired.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 11 Oct. 2021
• If people start seeing more money, the anger the bill has sparked could defuse.
  — Jim Newell, Slate Magazine, 19 Dec. 2017
• The delay is a tactic that the government uses to defuse the anger.
  — Jiayang Fan, The New Yorker, 17 June 2019
• There's a big meal, hours to fill and family tensions to defuse.
  — Author: Lisa Bonos, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Nov. 2019
• The army deployed to defuse the tensions and free the family, who had taken shelter in the house with the body.
  — Star Tribune, 1 Aug. 2021
• At-bats feel like trying to defuse a ticking time bomb.
  — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Feb. 2023
• Vizcaino, working fast as if to defuse the moment, came right back with a high heat at 98.
  — Craig Davis, Sun-Sentinel.com, 1 Oct. 2017
• But her staff has had to learn to endure and defuse confrontations.
  — Eileen Sullivan, New York Times, 19 May 2024
• The app gently guides users in learning to relax their muscles and mind, and how to defuse anger.
  — Gary Robbins, sandiegouniontribune.com, 24 Apr. 2018
• In the game, Spider-Man has to ascend a building to defuse bombs planted by the Green Goblin.
  — Dan Gvozden, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 June 2023
• Benjamin, an Ohio native, was killed in Afghanistan in 2009 while trying to defuse a bomb.
  — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Nov. 2019
• The light-hearted online banter seems to be at least in part an attempt to defuse that.
  — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Aug. 2023
• Biden, who would be 86 at the end of a second term, has tried to defuse the age issue by turning it into a joke.
  — Michael Collins, USA TODAY, 12 July 2024
• Brown did not back down from Neto and started walking toward Neto and barking at the Angels shortstop as the home plate umpire stepped in front of Neto to try and defuse the situation.
  — Ryan Canfield, FOXNews.com, 21 June 2025
• Should this change bring about that peace by defusing any power struggle, that would only be seen as a positive step toward keeping Verstappen in place.
  — Luke Smith, New York Times, 10 July 2025