How to Use defuse in a Sentence

defuse

verb

• Skilled negotiators helped defuse the crisis.
• This led to a tense standoff that police had to defuse.
  — Parth M.n., WIRED, 23 Nov. 2023
• At-bats feel like trying to defuse a ticking time bomb.
  — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Feb. 2023
• 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
• 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
• Dorn told police that Brown, his nephew, stepped in to try to defuse the tension, the documents say.
  — Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023
• On his end, McAfee tried to defuse the conflict during his show last week and again on Tuesday.
  — Christopher Brito, CBS News, 9 Jan. 2024
• The woman walked away, towards the city hall lot, to defuse the situation, but the man followed.
  — cleveland, 14 June 2022
• That's when an AI bot can step in to cut waiting time and help defuse the situation.
  — David Morgan, CBS News, 4 Jan. 2024
• The two struggled for about an hour, as Colin Haynie tried to defuse the situation and get the gun away from his son.
  — Paighten Harkins, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 July 2023
• The agents were calmly trying to defuse the situation, which seemed to anger the woman even more.
  — Steven P. Dinkin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Jan. 2023
• The bill aims to defuse the strategy behind Trump's attempt to overthrow the 2020 election.
  — Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 22 Sep. 2022
• The bigger challenge is finding a way to defuse the anger that is fueling the threats and acts of violence.
  — Steven P. Dinkin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 June 2023
• They have now been postponed to April 23 in an attempt to defuse the situation.
  — Sylejman Kllokoqi, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Dec. 2022
• In response, McNeill has tried to defuse their argument by pointing to Cruz’s guilty plea.
  — Eric Levenson, CNN, 14 Oct. 2022
• At the end of the video, King Felipe, Letizia's husband and Sofia's son, approached the two women in what seemed to be an attempt to defuse the situation.
  — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 16 Jan. 2023
• Athens ultimately agreed to take the systems to defuse that crisis and avert a possible war.
  — Paul Iddon, Forbes, 30 June 2022
• This was the West working to defuse things and encourage constructive action.
  — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2022
• President Xi has few good options to defuse the crisis.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 30 Nov. 2022
• But every time the bomb was supposed to go off, the engineers created a new bit of code to defuse it, somewhat defeating the point.
  — David Yaffe-Bellany, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2022
• Police later confirmed on X that the grenade was safely defused.
  — Sophie Tanno, CNN, 17 Mar. 2024
• Her father taught her how to defuse her power, but as Charlie turns 11, the fire becomes harder and harder to control.
  — Travis Bean, Forbes, 14 May 2022
• Ted, in turn, manages to defuse the situation by, well, being Ted.
  — David M. Perry, CNN, 15 Mar. 2023
• The Angels helped escort the teens out of the station, defusing the situation.
  — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 8 May 2023
• To further defuse the attacks upon him, Parker, in 1958, encourages Elvis to go into the Army as a way to clean up his image.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 25 May 2022
• The hunters declined to pay Erman, and a game warden arrived at the field later that morning to defuse the situation.
  — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 27 Mar. 2023
• All of that is still there, but now Republicans have an attack line that Democrats can’t easily defuse.
  — Daniel Strauss, The New Republic, 20 Jan. 2023
• Despite a few missteps, the team defuses the bomb, completing their months-long quest.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 30 Nov. 2023
• Some had hoped that Khan’s appearance in court Saturday would defuse the tension.
  — Salman Masood, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Mar. 2023
• Some have argued that the vaccination rules should simply be looser, to defuse stigma around getting the shots.
  — Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024