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
• 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
• Those fears compelled both leaders to defuse the crisis.
  — Paul Avey, Foreign Affairs, 6 Mar. 2025
• John steps in and jacks Clown up, pinning an arm behind her back, but Parker comes in and defuses the tension.
  — Stacia Brown, Vulture, 26 June 2025
• Cousins then appeared to make a striking motion with his arm before a teammate stepped in to defuse the situation.
  — Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 10 June 2025