How To Use defuse In A Sentence
- Although tensions existed between the army and the group, the president defused them by playing the politics of tribalism and regionalism, often targeting northerners as the source of the nation's problems.
- It helped her defuse a life-threatening situation in the Himalayas, when she and her friends were confronted by knife-carrying attackers.
- Training crossing guards to spot and defuse volatile situations is one of the options being explored. Times, Sunday Times
- However indignant and hotheaded he might appear, his intemperateness could rapidly be defused by humor or kindness. Storyteller
- But there were no outward signs that diplomatic efforts would soon defuse the fighting.
- The two groups will meet next week to try to defuse the crisis/situation/tension.
- Though angry, both sides quickly sought to defuse the controversy.
- Viewers lapped it up and the crisis was defused. Times, Sunday Times
- He summoned the police, the van turned out to be packed full of a terrorist's explosives, and the bombs were defused.
- The stratagem on the whole worked and served to defuse hostility to colonial rule.