How To Use Fuse In A Sentence

  • It is by these special touches that the author infuses the books with the spirit of humanity, without which a fantasy becomes an empty fancy.
  • Among profuse schools of trevallies and barracuda, huge tunas and a host of sharks cruise the sheer wall.
  • Either the recession is biting harder than I had realised or a lot of people are confused about the boundaries between fact and fiction.
  • Acronyms or abbreviations can confuse a client who is looking for the business in a resource listing.
  • Your essay gets a bit confused halfway through when you introduce too many ideas at once.
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  • (Not to be confused with what we call cookies)To serve Devon, or Cornwall clotted cream would desecrate a good southern biscuit (and be a waste of the cream really, I prefer it on saffron buns)a bit of plain cream, fresh butter, and cane syrup poured over a hot biscuit is ambrosia. Scones, Cream and Jam - a West Country cream tea
  • When the effused lymph is not absorbed it organizes, either forming a sort of internal cicatrix which is harder than the surrounding tissues or increasing the density of the part by augmenting the amount of plastic material within it. An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital.
  • This young man refuses to work and is freeloading
  • It is important not to confuse the sociological meaning of age with the notion of chronological age, the length of time a person has been alive. Sociology
  • To reduce the wing trim drag, the fuselage was fitted with lateral surfaces called chines, which actually converted the forward fuselage into a fixed canard which developed lift.
  • He tried to refuse but she insisted so much that he gave in. Times, Sunday Times
  • And on the need for contempt powers, he recounted how officials at times refused to obey the orders.
  • It is therefore unsurprising that such seizures are sometimes confused with panic attacks.
  • The Press of Atlantic City interviewed Kuras, who spoke in confused, broken English.
  • She had refused all solid food.
  • The ensuing grassroots campaign failed to save "embrangle" (to confuse or entangle) and "caliginosity" (dimness, darkness). Jezebel
  • Dunstan: Dunstan: “What happens if the program administrator refuses to certify that the defendant “completed” the program on the grounds that the defendant refused to agree with certain teachings?” The Volokh Conspiracy » Stringent Constitutional Limits on Anger Management Classes, Anti-Drug/Alcohol-Abuse Classes, or Even Traffic School as Alternatives to Prosecution?
  • The bones of the skull are not properly fused at birth.
  • A deep cut on her wrist was bleeding profusely.
  • inconceivability" is used in the sense of relative inconceivability, it is incorrectly used, unless it is qualified in some way; because, if used without qualification, there is danger of its being confused with inconceivability in its absolute sense. A Candid Examination of Theism
  • The company refused to honour the verbal agreement and put him on a more expensive tariff. Times, Sunday Times
  • Rest assured that you are not the only one who is confused. Times, Sunday Times
  • More specifically, a recusant was someone who refused to attend Protestant church services.
  • This applies both to the mentally alert and the mentally confused.
  • Some newspapers still refuse to print certain swear words.
  • 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.
  • The sea was its usual calm blue, a glassy liquid surface stretching till it fused with the horizon in a spectacle of colour.
  • And in a sideswipe at some of his peers, many of whom he feels are languishing in the comfort zone, he refused to pull his punches.
  • Nutty sweetbreads, bitter greens, gently brash shallots, and velvety chanterelles suffuse farfalle in well-oiled repertory.
  • They may refuse their feeds and become fretful with a shrill cry when handled.
  • I wanted to ask her out but was scared that she might refuse.
  • They use all these phrases and peppiness to confuse you.
  • It's great that she was able to tie up Super Smize's narrative, since half of these girls would have been so confused if they just encountered her in plainclothes without an explanation. Taking the boot off
  • Ann, made of sterner stuff than I, refused all offers of help.
  • To my shame I refused to listen to her side of the story.
  • Many people confuse the workings of capitalism that lead to lower costs and greater profits with free trade.
  • They will learn more about Churchill than from this diffuse, badly edited book. Times, Sunday Times
  • Infused then with the enlightenment only a brutal smackdown from a celestial being can provide, Jacob sets out to make peace with his brother, no matter the cost.
  • A picket was organised last week after receivers Robson Rhodes refused to withdraw redundancy notices issued to 67 staff.
  • The governor refused to accept Cox's resignation .
  • There are chocks of assorted age and make, battered into shapeless bashies, as well as many fine #1 Friends, sunk and overcammed deep into fingercracks which refuse to give up their dead.
  • This consisted of the standard scheme with the addition of yellow and orange stripes to the rear of the fuselage and tailplane.
  • Iran has refused to discuss the allegations of weapons experiments for three years, saying they are based on "fabricated documents" provided by a "few arrogant countries," a term Iranian authorities often use to refer to the United States and its allies. NYT > Home Page
  • Ian Hecht at Marturia. net fires one of the first Terra Insegura reviews into the the blogosphere, and though he has some quibbles (not to be confused with tribbles – although both can multiply rapidly on occasion, tribbles are furrier), in general, he likes it. LeaderPost preview of Follies, avec moi
  • When asked for permission to reproduce a work she granted the request and refused payment.
  • Isn't there something revolting about catering to the imagined needs of a tiny group of spoiled ladies, a Marie Antoinette–ish situation that reached its apotheosis when John Galliano showed his infamous clochard collection—the word means bum or hobo in French, and the tattered gowns, hand-stenciled to look filthy, trailed pots, pans, and other refuse—at the 1997 Dior haute couture show? Art in the Parks 3: Nan Kempner's Clothing
  • She refused and subsequently suffered injuries to her shoulder, pulled muscles and bruises.
  • The only time I have done them is for older teenagers with congenitally missing back teeth (with the baby tooth still there at that age) whose only cosmetic option is the porcelain fused to metal crown (those run around $800 or more each) and usually necessitates a pulpal treatment as well due to the small tooth size, and these crowns having a questionable prognosis in baby teeth. White Crowns For Baby Teeth
  • While there is breath left in my body, I will refuse.
  • For decades, such films were low-grade romances with weak plots interfused with 20-odd musical outbursts.
  • And he warned Teheran it faces ever increasing sanctions if it refuses to suspend nuclear enrichment.
  • Whether it is a native cat, previously thought extinct, or an escaped exotic pet, the Beast of Bodmin is a creature that refuses to disappear.
  • The city of Lyon refused to carry out instructions from Paris and the city was besieged for two months.
  • Moreover, many insurance companies (including mine) refuse to pay the $30,000 cost, reasoning that any economic benefit they would recoup is years down the road. Beating Obesity
  • They put this view into practice quite straightforwardly, avoided ostentatious clothing and wealth, refused to swear oaths in court, to bear arms or to defend themselves.
  • A quite different way of creating a chimaera is to fuse two early mouse embryos.
  • When appearing in court, all three men refused to cooperate, claiming the government has no jurisdiction.
  • You are talking about moving really confused, old people.
  • The artist plays with perspective to confuse the eye.
  • A quick query brought profuse apologies - her order had been mislaid.
  • He falls into a stupor, into utter oblivion of the world about him, becomes in turn excited and confused, his senses begin to functionate in a fallacious manner, and he thus succeeds in shutting out from consciousness, for the time being at least, the entire unbearable situation. Studies in Forensic Psychiatry
  • There are some things a chappie's mind absolutely refuses to picture, and Aunt Julia singing 'Rumpty-tiddley-umpty-ay' is one of them. The Man with Two Left Feet And Other Stories
  • But unlike Karl Barth or Paul Tillich, for example, who saw themselves as fusing philosophy and theology, Rosenstock-Huessy refused to see himself primarily as a philosopher or theologian ” though when the term philosopher was qualified by the preceding ˜social™, he was more willing to accept that designation. [ Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
  • Yet again she refused, and this time the mage threw open the door to her room in a blind rage.
  • In the past it has refused to interfere in the country 's internal affairs but may be softening its position. Times, Sunday Times
  • After a time my brothers began pressing me to travel with them; but I refused saying, “What gained ye by travel voyage that I should gain thereby?” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • He was left in limbo by Scottish Labour's Executive, which refused to endorse his candidacy until Fife police concluded their investigations into the case.
  • There were three gunners, both front and rear of the plane and one in a bubble canopy half way down the fuselage.
  • After a promising start, the campaign fizzled out in the summer when the full Co-operative Congress refused to back it.
  • He refused to do so and insisted that he wished to re-enter the house.
  • It was considered a breach of etiquette to refuse an invitation.
  • But the mood has been building for several years, diffused through a host of single issue campaigns, through numerous signs of dissent and discontentment.
  • It helped her defuse a life-threatening situation in the Himalayas, when she and her friends were confronted by knife-carrying attackers.
  • The dockers refused to load the ship and prevented it from sailing.
  • My scooter is still very much a material object: it eats petrol, needs its tires filled and refuses to start on cold mornings.
  • Downing Street last night refused to discuss any British involvement. The Sun
  • The BMW M6 has deeper front valance with air intakes for the engine and brakes, more contoured sills and rear valance that includes a diffuser to increase aerodynamic efficiency.
  • And you confused it with complexity, which is not a part of the argument at all.
  • Judge Benson, unbudging in his view that justice had been done in the case of United States v. Leonard Peltier, refused to order a new trial, and once again (in 1984) his ruling was appealed before the circuit court. United States v. Leonard Peltier
  • Maybe she's confused by your claim because she knows what the word trite actually means. Okay. I'm up for it tonight. I'm live-blogging Hillary Night at the Democratic Convention.
  • The team refused to resign themselves to defeat/to being defeated.
  • Earlier, in a dramatic outburst, he claimed he was not getting a fair hearing after being refused permission to call a witness.
  • Most of the reports will have been written, if not by the refuseniks, but the next tier of management.
  • We should not however confuse the transaction with the eventual use of the raw material.
  • The fused parietals form the posterior two-thirds of the sagittal crest, expanding posteriorly to form a flattened, sculpted deck behind the supratemporal fenestrae adjacent to the squamosals.
  • The young men tried to enter a nightclub but were refused admission .
  • Well, errm, not precisely, but we need to stand up to it and create a multipolar world, not to be confused with multilateralism, which is a way of using up large amounts of money to bleat with great self-satisfaction, achieving little. There is never any point to appeasement
  • Many in southern Europe refuse to pay taxes, and rampant corruption in government and the public sector is the norm. Times, Sunday Times
  • Five steps up the dirt path, my trachea crumpled, my vertebrae fused, and the small muscles in my back revolted and spasmed.
  • You've been snowed, flim flammed from an early age and refuse to acknowledge it. Harlan Ellison on God
  • The Admiral had refused to listen to anything Marcus said, and eventually Marcus had been dismissed and ordered back for the tribunals.
  • The Blue Flower is a study of just how the ideal in love might be interfused with the real, and the real with the ideal. Love in literature
  • Tourism chiefs said a short fuse was used because of high winds. The Sun
  • He was beginning to get rather confused.
  • Before the flight, find where the spare fuses are stored, determine how to select the right amperage and go through the replacement procedure.
  • He refused to rule out the possibility of a tax increase.
  • Figure and space, positive and negative, are thus seamlessly interfused.
  • Training crossing guards to spot and defuse volatile situations is one of the options being explored. Times, Sunday Times
  • A survey of small businesses has found that more than a quarter have admitted they made the wrong IT purchases because they were confused by overly complicated technical jargon.
  • They refused to remove a clamp from a car outside a doctor's clinic even though the owner needed to bring his son to hospital and had no money.
  • Not a coincidence is my guess, but no one should confuse causation and correlation. Discourse.net: Perspective
  • Litse sat up confused but the memory of the past eight days flew to the front of her mind.
  • We intend to fuse the companies into a single organization.
  • Though a rugby career beckoned, he refused to abandon his education. Times, Sunday Times
  • Other, roumyng the cities vp and downe and caryeng alway in bottles faire watre and fresshe, if any man be disposed to drinke, vnasked they willingly proffre it him, and refuse not to take, if he for their gentlenesse offre aught vnto them agayn. The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie
  • Again, he pours scorn on racialist mythology but, in his steadfastly conservative way, refuses to become histrionically sanctimonious on the matter, preferring studied contempt to self-promoting outrage.
  • The chemo kills all the cells in his immune system, so they harvested stem cells from his hip bone and reinfuse them the day after his day of rest. The Delphos Herald
  • When I worked in the ER I had a plastic surgeon beef up my personal ratio count when he refused to come in for a 27 year old female who literally had the right side of her face bitten off from her lip to her orbital canthus by her own pit bull, ONE WEEK BEFORE HER WEDDING. Time and Place
  • Anyone who refuses to pay an on-the-spot fine for allowing their pet to foul a footpath, for example, could be taken to court and find their name in the newspapers.
  • He is a great actor and seeing him go from lost rogue to confused son to driven billionnaire to a conflicted hero is a blast.
  • The uncontradicted evidence of Mr. Hopkins was that they refused due to the termination policy set out in the contract proposed by Lithonia.
  • Any competent adult has the absolute right to refuse to be examined by any particular individual.
  • When they finally found the daughter, the wife and grandparents refused to let her go to visit her dying father.
  • The access-floor system, together with floor diffusers, allows modifications to the layout of the space to be completed with very little lost work time.
  • Decoys that can confuse the homing sensor in the interceptor are the Achilles' heel of this system.
  • OTOH I’ve always been fascinated by the massive blind spot in multiculti and PC discourse which refuses to acknowledge the oppressive and discriminatory elements in many non western cultures. Cheeseburger Gothic » Drop your bombs between the minarets, down Geneva way-ay-ay-aaayyy…
  • The Cabinet and its members fuse political and executive functions.
  • The moral of this story is that two thirds of the world shouldn't read it, as it will only confuse them.
  • The seas were as big as they had seen before the Pegasus had passed by and, if anything, even more confused. LET NOT THE DEEP
  • In this design the fuselage is the wing and vice versa. Times, Sunday Times
  • The populist leader has dodged the issue of whether he will refuse a judicial summons to answer questions in the dock. Times, Sunday Times
  • “People are always a little confused by the name Rocco Livingston.” Uprising
  • The landlord refused to serve him because he considered him too drunk.
  • An anti-runway warhead which is equipped with a delayed action fuse has the capability of penetrating reinforced concrete runways to a depth of nearly 0.5m.
  • My grandfather had refused to put her in a nursing home and continued to interact with her as if she was a normal person.
  • Algorisme being popularly reduced in OFr. to augorime, English also shows two forms, the popular augrime, ending in agrim, agrum, and the learned algorism which passed through many pseudo-etymological perversions, including a recent algorithm in which it is learnedly confused with Gr. ‘number.' Languagehat.com: MATHEMATICAL TERMS.
  • Segments were perfused with filtered water which was not acidified.
  • For being summoned to come and receiue his consecration at Canturburie (as alreadie yee haue heard) through counsell of the canons Yorke he refused so to doo: bicause they informed him that if he so did, it should be greatlie preiudiciall to the liberties of that sée, whose archbishop was of like authoritie in all things vnto the archbishop of Canturburie, so that he was bound onelie to fetch his consecration and benediction at Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (3 of 12) Henrie I.
  • He used his key to get in here and when he saw you feverous and unconscious, he refused to leave.
  • Or was he merely seeking to confuse people in the West who have been calling for military intervention?
  • The bank refused to lend the money to us.
  • I'm meeting with the guy from Solatube at the site on Saturday, so any specific advice (eg; using multiple smaller lights to avoid shadows rather than one big one, using specific kind of diffuser, etc, would be really helpful if you can think of any.) Skylight tubing
  • Both of the books' heroes are supermen who refuse to conform. Times, Sunday Times
  • She refused to allow the exhibition of her husband's work.
  • My writing heart feels as crushed as that last bit of toothpaste that refuses to be squeezed out its flattened, mangled tube because someone (and I won’t name name but it begins with S and ends in cott) left the cap off again … Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » That’s Right. It’s Contest Time.
  • Overall, the night was infused with a special energy that came from the fresh faces in the sell-out crowd of 430 as well as from the glam factor.
  • I believe Whit is correct in asserting that we should teach all our children (male and female) to refuse anything they [[really]] do not want to do — when they are young and when they areolder. The Volokh Conspiracy » Sex Education, Dirty Words, and the Due Process Clause
  • I then wandered down Whitehall, passed the great Offices of State, to view the Mother of Parliaments and ponder the fact that 70 years on Britain has a Government led by a Prime Minister never elected to that Office, who has refused to consult the People for fear they oppose him and happily transfered that once so precious prized sovereignty to a new European Superpower. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
  • A resistance unit has a temperature fuse between a resistance and a terminal for deactivating a resistance circuit when the motor reaches the permissible maximum temperature.
  • The UK has refused to recognize the new regime.
  • But convictions were secured against just 50, mainly because witnesses refused to testify against the rest. The Sun
  • It was also last month that a federal judge refused to dismiss the state lawsuit against Desert Diamond Casino.
  • Northwest Airlines refused to make refunds for the unusable tickets.
  • However indignant and hotheaded he might appear, his intemperateness could rapidly be defused by humor or kindness. Storyteller
  • The military, led by General Fidel Ramoz, refused its continued support.
  • Doctors are so scared of being sued that many will refuse to treat high-risk patients or perform difficult operations, medical experts have warned.
  • Their immense and sandy diffuseness is like the prairie or the desert, and their incongruities are like the last deliration. Representative Men
  • If coagulopathy is suspected, transfuse with fresh blood. Chapter 14
  • Their lowly status meant they were refused entry to Europe the next season. Times, Sunday Times
  • His music fused the rhythms of jazz with classical forms.
  • The lags staged the rooftop protest during a sunny spell and refused to come down. The Sun
  • The municipal officer demands a bribe from a hawker; the bureaucrat refuses to register a land title or a marriage; the traffic cop beats the rickshaw-driver who can't afford to pay his weekly installment, known as hafta. India's Middle Class Hungers for Undemocratic Change
  • We saw the engine had evidently refused to take a very sharp curve. Times, Sunday Times
  • The house did not suffer any structural damage but when the lightning hit the house there was an enormous bang, the fuses blew and the power went.
  • Some people miss out on care and support simply because they end up confused and bewildered by the process. Times, Sunday Times
  • Do we want a hero with universal vision, or would we prefer a fallible creature, confusing and confused?
  • The laws of Nature, that is to say the laws of God, plainly made every human being a law unto himself, we must steadfastly refuse to obey those laws, and we must as steadfastly stand by the conventions which ignore them, since the statutes furnish us peace, fairly good government and stability, and therefore are better for us than the laws of God, which would soon plunge us into confusion and disorder and anarchy if we should adopt them. 
  • But clavicles are now known from a variety of nonavian dinosaurs, and a fused furcula is present in several nonavian theropods, including allosauroids and tyrannosaurids.
  • Tom Staple would have willingly been impaled before a Committee of the House, could he by such self-sacrifice have infused his own spirit into the component members of the hebdomadal board. Barchester Towers
  • The gentle woo-woo spirituality of New Age is attractive because it refuses the grinding realities of life spent in the shadow of Wall Street and Hollywood and Silicon Valley.
  • Indeed, kin aggregations of larvae have the potential to fuse, more so during the period when corals appear to lack an efficient allorecognition system. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • It is morally wrong for western powers to recolonise territory in this way, and their soldiers should refuse to engage in a war of recolonisation.
  • In its original sense enamel is glass or vitreous paste fused to a prepared surface, usually of metal, by means of intense heat.
  • The landlord refused to serve him because he considered him too drunk.
  • He refused to reveal the identity of his client.
  • The offer was too enticing to refuse.
  • We tried to confuse the enemy.
  • The bones of the skull are not properly fused at birth.
  • But there were no outward signs that diplomatic efforts would soon defuse the fighting.
  • Fox and hockey officials refused to put a price tag on a regulation puck stuffed with computer chips.
  • The farther the ratio between the rates of rod and disc departs from exactly 1: 5, whether less or greater, the more rapid will the strobic movement, backward or forward, be; until finally the divergence is too great, the newly forming bands lie too far ahead or behind those already formed to fuse with them and so be apperceived as one system, and so the bands are lost in confusion. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.
  • He appeared to be doing well until he was found to be lethargic, confused, febrile, and hypotensive 2 years after his initial diagnosis of lymphoma.
  • It showed that she was finding it very hard to be assertive, and her son was confused by his mother's contradictory signals.
  • Few reports address the reconstructive challenge of total knee arthroplasty after a surgically fused or ankylosed knee.
  • The main lobby is cooled with a variety of custom displacement diffusers at each of the four floor levels.
  • You'll get delicate, herb-infused fish steamed gently in their own juices.
  • A single-pointed approach is important when situations get complicated, confused or out of hand.
  • And yes, Mr Obama refused to endorse Mrs Clinton's bad plan tax holiday.
  • Human documents belong to humankind: hence his rage against obstructive archivists who dare refuse access to precious materials which have fallen to their care.
  • Anti-clerical knights of the shire who wished to disendow the Church, riotous tenants of an unpopular abbey, parishioners who refused to pay their tithes, would often be called The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
  • Plus the rest of the fuselage is built in Witchita and Charleston SC. Sound Politics: Boeing Ascendant, Airbus Reeling
  • If a fuse is in the supply circuit, it will do its job and blow out, opening the circuit and stopping the current flow.
  • Britain has consistently refused to extradite terror suspects to any country, including America, that has the death penalty.
  • While it all seems a little cryptic and confused, the duo promise a night of bizarre and sweet surprises where everyone is welcome.
  • A life of poverty, tradition and religious dread suffuses songs steeped in misery and learnt by word of mouth.
  • It should not be confused with night terrors or panics, in which a child becomes acutely agitated and terror-struck at night, appearing to be awake while in fact asleep and unable to be woken.
  • When CBS reran the episode six months later, some 40 affiliates refused to air it, and national advertisers shied away from buying ad time, establishing a pattern that remains in effect today.
  • It planned for a mock battle, shammed unity, and were confused by the intransigence and solidarity of the other side.
  • She is both the discerning scholar from the West who has managed to keep a sense of perspective and balance in a diffuse narrative and an enchanted participant in the action.
  • But the rags, the refuse - these I will not inventory but allow, in the only way possible, to come into their own: by making use of them.
  • For several months the prices displayed by the machines on insertion of the card have been in both euro and punts, but on Tuesday the machines refused to recognise euros!
  • He mentioned this to his cousin, but O’Hara, with a light-hearted reference to forewarning and forearming, refused to take the matter seriously. The Dancing Druids
  • Georgia refuses to give up any territory.
  • The magazine refused to print his article.
  • Does Mr. Somin believe that it should be legal for a private restaurant owner to refuse service to a potential patron because the patron is an African American? The Volokh Conspiracy » Public Opinion, Anti-Discrimination Law, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964
  • The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All, therefore, that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt. Seneca 
  • What's instructive is to look at how the Obama campaign responded: challenge the facticity and factiousness of the ACORN story -- and get it explained about how ridiculous it is, and let the pictures of the McCain/Palin supporters diffuse themselves across the i-net. Colin Powell Endorses Obama
  • In studying English Lexicology, the terms about the morphological structure and word - formation often confuse us.
  • It was on the tip of her tongue to refuse.
  • A bank cannot refuse to cash banker's draft, whereas it can refuse to cash a cheque.

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