Sentence examples for it defused from inspiring English sources

"It defused the story," Mr. Noyes said.

It defused political dissent by permitting and even financing it.

It defused the tension and distracted us from our problems.

It defused the bomb by 5 15 a.m., in the process learning how it was made.

Asilomar is remembered as a great success because it defused public anxiety and opened up the market for biotechnology.

Some environmentalists thought the Bush administration should have called for lower levels, but by setting the same amount as proposed by Mr. Clinton, it defused the issue.

If there is an initial urge to stimulate erotically, it becomes defused or dissipated by the semi-abstraction of the juxtaposed colour.

But tension is often defused — partly, it seems, because many fans are too drunk to raise a fist.

"All this" included making it to the United States semifinals in the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pa., last week, and the sideshow that came with it -- a near-scandal, defused, about whether some of the Harlem players lived outside the neighborhood, and controversy about some of the players' showboating.

That crisis was defused in 1994 when it agreed to halt its nuclear program in exchange for help in building a nuclear reactor for peaceful purposes, an agreement it has now repudiated.

It was a table covered with defused roadside bombs made from cellphones wired to explosives.