How to Use fuse in a Sentence
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The heat of the ground had fused parts of his shoes to his flesh.
—Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2025
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Byler is their last names fused together.
—Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 28 Oct. 2025
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My ankle was also fused on my right leg, so there was no movement.
—Hunter Woodhall and Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 6 Feb. 2024
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Conn observes how this has fused rural people to the armed forces.
—Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
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But it was fused with audacious total look prints in bold reds and blues.
—Thomas Adamson, ajc, 23 June 2023
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Our hearts break for the victims even as Michael’s music is fused to our souls.
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2026
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The brick was now a cylinder, but the onions were still fried well, hot and fused together.
—Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2023
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What happens when systems are fused with some kind of AI?
—Mohit Menghnani, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
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Genna had back and neck surgery to fuse some of his spine together, but that didn’t seem to help.
—Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 July 2023
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The doll has a black upper body fused to a white upper body and sports a reversible skirt at the waist.
—Susan Degrane, Chicago Tribune, 28 Feb. 2026
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He will be connected, almost fused, to the gun and become one with it.
—Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 10 Oct. 2025
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Milagro opens the box at home, and the scarab fuses with her brother.
—Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2023
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What began as a brush fire fused into a single, town-eating front.
—Literary Hub, 13 May 2026
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When lung cells fused, only the main parts of the cell body connected to each other.
—Byclaudia Lopez Lloreda, science.org, 7 June 2023
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And there’s a layer of what tastes like gooey sugar paste fusing the doughnut to the peanuts.
—Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2023
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Johnson’s right wrist is fused due to a career-ending injury.
—Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Jan. 2024
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Think tomboy-chic fused with the sultry design codes that Bebe is largely known for.
—Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 10 Jan. 2024
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Soft Scale Soft scales have a soft waxy coating that is fused to the insect body.
—Madeline Buiano, Martha Stewart, 15 Feb. 2026
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Skull bones fuse prematurely, which limits or slows brain growth.
—Amanda MacMillan, Health, 10 Sep. 2023
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Medics are also fusing together some of her discs.
—Gina Kalsi, PEOPLE, 28 May 2026
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But toner still has the advantage over ink of being fused to the top surface.
—PC Magazine, 30 Sep. 2025
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It is achieved when two atoms that usually repel are forced to fuse together.
—Angela Dewan, CNN, 21 Feb. 2024
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To those in whose dreams fused nuclei dance, the cold-hot distinction is consoling.
—Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 1 Mar. 2023
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The 30-inch long hair was custom-colored and fused in with Keratin tips.
—Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 26 May 2023
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Some of my favorite rap songs of all time have a bunch of melody in ’em, or some R&B fused into ’em.
—Mackenzie Cummings-Grady, Billboard, 25 Aug. 2025
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That’s because, the researchers write, the males are formed from a sperm and egg that never fuse together.
—Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Apr. 2023
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Then a whole bank of dimmers on the switchboard unaccountably fused.
—Literary Hub, 13 Mar. 2026
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Iron is the most stable element and so cannot fuse to release energy.
—The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 13 June 2023
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But more so than his other recent films, this one is fused with an undercurrent of emotion.
—Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 June 2023
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An alabaster stone fused with a crucifix lay beside; it is said to have always been by his bedside.
—Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 7 Sep. 2025
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On the ice, his fuse can be short.
—Murat Ates, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2026
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There the fuse was lit that led to … a book.
—George F. Will, Washington Post, 8 May 2026
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Somebody has to light the fuse.
—Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 16 Aug. 2025
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The curling iron that blew a fuse months ago?
—Elly Leavitt, Vogue, 25 June 2026
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Let’s light the fuse for repeal.
—Brad Weisenstein, Chicago Tribune, 5 Feb. 2026
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While the shell flies through the air, a time fuse is burning.
—Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 30 June 2022
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Soon, a spark lit a fuse that set the whole dumpster on fire.
—WIRED, 21 Sep. 2023
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Revisit the idea that lit the fuse in the first place.
—Jd Barker, Rolling Stone, 2 Mar. 2026
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The fuse is set so for the grenade to go off as soon as the casing splits open.
—David Hambling, Forbes, 7 July 2022
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The shell was designed so that the fuse would be lit by the same charge that fired it.
—Henri Hollis, ajc, 4 Mar. 2022
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The devices were wrapped in black tape with nuts, bolts and screws, as well as a fuse.
—Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2026
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The first three episodes were dynamite, but then the fuse blew out.
—Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 22 May 2026
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And once that fuse was lit, Dan Hurley did the rest.
—Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 19 Feb. 2026
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This tripped a fuse, meaning there was no heat in the building the night the sloths died.
—Francie Ebert, NBC news, 24 Apr. 2026
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The jars also had hobby fuses that could be lit.
—Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 9 Mar. 2026
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But the tense third act builds like a firecracker with a fast-burning fuse.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Feb. 2023
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Here’s what will light the fuse under this stock sooner rather than later.
—Brett Owens, Forbes, 11 Aug. 2022
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But bet-line is too fat for a mathcup that won’t blow any scoreboard fuses.
—Miami Herald, 25 Sep. 2025
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All products include stakes to help keep your decor in place, as well as bulbs and fuses.
—Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Aug. 2025
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At the signal, the boats launched as if lit by a fuse, oars moving back and forth in unison.
—Kim O'Connell, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 July 2022
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And if a protest turns violent, who or what exactly lit the fuse?
—Nancy Gibbs, Time, 17 Oct. 2025
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Dealers will replace the anti-lock brake fuse at no cost to owners.
—Tom Krisher, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2023
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But everybody knew these were the guys that lit the match and put it to the fuse that launched the rocket.
—Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 3 Feb. 2024
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Dealers will replace the antilock brake fuse at no cost to owners.
—Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 27 Sep. 2023
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Replace the fuse with one of the same size, attach the panel, and carry on.
—Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 29 Mar. 2022
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Harris has lit the fuse, but the rest of us have to choose to weather the explosion.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 17 Feb. 2022
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The spark that lit the fuse here, again, was the Pelosi Taiwan visit.
—Andy Meek, BGR, 7 Aug. 2022
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Don has a long, long fuse, but the neighborhood knucklehead wants to light it.
—Helen Shaw, Vulture, 14 Apr. 2022
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The mine is designed to hold in place and explode once the hull of a moving ship crushes a fuse.
—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 16 Feb. 2023
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Space heaters provided heat, but the sloths were kept in the cold for at least one night after a fuse tripped.
—Ryan Brennan april 27, Kansas City Star, 27 Apr. 2026
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