How to Use defuse in a Sentence

defuse

verb

• Skilled negotiators helped defuse the crisis.
• This is the best way to defuse tensions across the strait and things could move from there.
  — Zhou Bo, Time, 23 Oct. 2025
• 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
• Those bombs were identical and equipped with timers and bomb squads were able to defuse them.
  — Hadeel Al-Shalchi, NPR, 21 Feb. 2025
• That simple shift in perspective can defuse a lot of anger.
  — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 24 Sep. 2025
• But her staff has had to learn to endure and defuse confrontations.
  — Eileen Sullivan, New York Times, 19 May 2024
• There's a big meal, hours to fill and family tensions to defuse.
  — Author: Lisa Bonos, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Nov. 2019
• If people start seeing more money, the anger the bill has sparked could defuse.
  — Jim Newell, Slate Magazine, 19 Dec. 2017
• That could help defuse tensions between the world’s two largest economies, at least somewhat.
  — New York Times, 27 June 2018
• Treating a joke as if it were meant seriously is the best way to defuse it.
  — Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 9 Aug. 2024
• 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
• For warriors across time, there have always been tunes to march to, and tunes to defuse the tension.
  — Lily Rothman, Time, 27 Sep. 2017
• Now’s the time for a Roth conversion One way to defuse the bomb?
  — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2024
• Silva is shown trying to defuse Newlon’s anger by telling him to relax.
  — Robert Salonga, The Mercury News, 16 Aug. 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
• The unit had four bomb experts, two of whom detected mines that the other two could defuse.
  — WSJ, 7 June 2021
• Bayleigh tries to defuse the situation, but there’s too much tension at this point.
  — Kyle Fowle, EW.com, 11 Sep. 2020
• As the chaos unfurled on-screen, the program scrambled to defuse the tension in the room.
  — Sarah Grant, Rolling Stone, 28 Mar. 2022
• Andy has taught Charlie how to defuse her power, which is triggered by anger or pain.
  — Clark Collis, EW.com, 9 Feb. 2022
• 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
• Rayford tried to defuse a fight inside the club, Jackson said, and shots were fired.
  — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 11 Oct. 2021
• What hasn’t changed is Hurts’ ability to defuse drama.
  — Zach Berman, New York Times, 11 June 2026
• If things go awry, the staff looks for ways to defuse the tension quickly, without letting things boil over.
  — Katie Kelly Bell, Robb Report, 21 Sep. 2024
• 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
• There are two near-term tests of whether the Buenos Aires agreement will defuse trade tensions.
  — Bob Davis, WSJ, 9 Dec. 2018
• The delay is a tactic that the government uses to defuse the anger.
  — Jiayang Fan, The New Yorker, 17 June 2019
• The guys came to her defense and Cox tried to defuse the situation.
  — Sandra Baker, star-telegram.com, 29 May 2017
• Stocks continue to trade higher on hopes that the war will somehow be defused in the near term.
  — Yarden Segev, NBC news, 13 Apr. 2026
• The team offers one of the few tools available to defuse mines without exploding them.
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 24 Feb. 2017
• Washington and Ankara struck the deal in June to defuse tensions.
  — Fox News, 28 Sep. 2018