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
• 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
• 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
• Congress needs to act to defuse this ticking time bomb.
  — Jacob J. Lew For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 8 Oct. 2021
• Rayford tried to defuse a fight inside the club, Jackson said, and shots were fired.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 11 Oct. 2021
• 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
• But her staff has had to learn to endure and defuse confrontations.
  — Eileen Sullivan, New York Times, 19 May 2024
• 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
• The unit had four bomb experts, two of whom detected mines that the other two could defuse.
  — WSJ, 7 June 2021
• Treating a joke as if it were meant seriously is the best way to defuse it.
  — Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 9 Aug. 2024
• 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
• Silva is shown trying to defuse Newlon’s anger by telling him to relax.
  — Robert Salonga, The Mercury News, 16 Aug. 2019
• 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
• 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
• His team went into a hospital and defused a half-dozen IEDs in the courtyard, in the basement and on the first floor.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 June 2019
• Andy has taught Charlie how to defuse her power, which is triggered by anger or pain.
  — Clark Collis, EW.com, 9 Feb. 2022
• Bayleigh tries to defuse the situation, but there’s too much tension at this point.
  — Kyle Fowle, EW.com, 11 Sep. 2020
• The woman walked away, towards the city hall lot, to defuse the situation, but the man followed.
  — cleveland, 14 June 2022
• Hostage negotiation and parenting have a lot in common: the stress levels (both parent and child), the need to defuse situations and the importance of give and take.
  — Gillian McAllister, People.com, 31 Jan. 2025