Sentence examples for is defusing from inspiring English sources
verb
To remove the fuse from (a bomb, etc.).
And you realize that, as is his wont, Mr. Mizrahi is defusing the tension, taking the questions on everyone's mind -- Is Isaac O.K? Has he survived the abrupt closing of his fashion business two years ago?
Q. Tactically and symbolically, what should they do first about trade? A. The most immediate issue is defusing the big trade tensions with Europe.
Bluestone 42 opens with the death of a boastful CIA liaison officer who is killed by a Taliban sniper while Medhurst's team is defusing a bomb.
At the other end would be the closing-night attraction, Kathryn Bigelow's "Hurt Locker," a large-scale, ferociously suspenseful war film about a team of soldiers in Iraq whose specialty is defusing explosives.
–If the Generic Action Hero Guy's only discernible skill is defusing bombs, why is he completely incapable of defusing a bomb when it counts the most?
- If the Generic Action Hero Guy's only discernible skill is defusing bombs, why is he completely incapable of defusing a bomb when it counts the most?
The situation is defused, at least for now.
Her mockery is defused, the interaction shifted to the mundane.
But the potent energy they once represented is defused.
A situation ripe for personality conflict is defused.
Park Slope goes on to win, something like 9-2, he thinks, and another "racialization" is defused.
