How to Use diffuse in a Sentence

diffuse

1 of 2 adjective

• The forest was filled with a soft, diffuse light.
• Runner’s knee can feel like a dull, diffuse ache in and around the kneecap.
  — SELF, 7 Dec. 2018
• The best light for most sculptural pieces is diffuse daylight.
  — Marni Jameson, The Denver Post, 23 Feb. 2017
• The front is somewhat diffuse, shallow and does not have great impetus to move.
  — Jeff Halverson, Washington Post, 20 June 2018
• Are Levi’s efforts too diffuse to add up to real impact?
  — Heather Landy, Quartz at Work, 18 Dec. 2019
• The wealth of families like the Rothschilds or Rockefellers is too diffuse to value.
  — Bloomberg.com, 27 June 2018
• The first symptoms are diffuse yellow areas on the top side of leaves, with the plants taking on an overall sick look, and brown spots as the disease progresses.
  — Tim Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 26 Aug. 2019
• On the front line Though the protests remain diffuse, without a visible leader, a few young activists have stepped to the forefront of some actions.
  — Suzanne Sataline, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 July 2019
• The idea of protesting in small, diffuse groups was in part aimed at complicating policing efforts, Tang added.
  — John Leicester, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2019
• The panels will draw on both direct and diffuse light, allowing them to suck in energy straight from the sun and from rays reflected back up from the clouds.
  — Yuliya Fedorinova, Bloomberg.com, 25 May 2017
• The first movement may have been somewhat diffuse but the payoff was a revelation of inner voices.
  — Zachary Lewis, cleveland, 14 Oct. 2019
• In a more diffuse way, social media users have been adept at putting names to the faces of white nationalists who marched at Charlottesville and getting them fired from their jobs.
  — Jeet Heer, New Republic, 19 Aug. 2017
• Researchers have slowly chipped away at that gap by adding to the census all the hot, diffuse gas in the enormous halos of galaxies and even larger galaxy clusters.
  — Amina Khan, latimes.com, 20 June 2018
• But her script is too diffuse—and too in love with the poetry of the Ukrainian women's black humor—to develop that theme with any force or clarity.
  — Tony Adler, Chicago Reader, 12 July 2018
• Night shift: The bright, diffuse interior lights in the Armada are too bright and diffuse for igniting while in motion.
  — Scott Sturgis, Philly.com, 15 Dec. 2017
• Groups have asked about using the technology in the ocean in places like the Pacific trash vortex, but by that point, Kellett said, the debris is probably too diffuse.
  — Jackie Snow, National Geographic, 17 Feb. 2017
• This may be because even the most advanced telescope lenses scatter too much incoming light to pick up the faint mergers of small and diffuse galaxies.
  — Quanta Magazine, 28 Sep. 2016
• The rapid, diffuse arrival of electric scooters on sidewalks and street corners revealed the yawning gaps in urban transportation that cars, buses, trains, and bikes just can’t close.
  — Umair Irfan, Vox, 5 Dec. 2018
• In most experiments, researchers awaken opsin-bearing neurons of a specific cell type with a pulse of diffuse blue-green light.
  — Kelly Servick, Science | AAAS, 18 July 2019
• The image captures a wide array of phenomena; some fall under the category of halos, while the more diffuse shadings closer to the moon are from a corona.
  — Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2020
• Try to be the bigger person, but don’t let self-restraint get you down — diffuse frustrations through something like journaling, taking long walks, or cooking a meal.
  — Randon Rosenbohm, Allure, 29 May 2019
• In the United States, a younger and more diffuse population means the peak comes a bit later and doesn't rise as high per capita, but the larger population means that over 2 million people end up dead.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 17 Mar. 2020
• All too often, Prokofiev Two comes off as little more than a virtuoso showpiece, a brilliant but diffuse display of solo talent.
  — Zachary Lewis, cleveland, 18 Oct. 2019
• The galaxy’s spiral disk of stars is actually made of two parts: a thinner, denser region encompassed by a thicker, more diffuse region.
  — Ramin Skibba, WIRED, 8 July 2018
• Nature has innate mystery; its smallest building blocks simply are fuzzy and diffuse objects.
  — Sophia Chen, WIRED, 20 June 2019
• While some of the hoteliers Glamour spoke to do offer diffuser attachments to their blow-dryers upon request, the temperatures of the dryers can sometimes be too much.
  — Andrea Arterbery, Glamour, 16 May 2018
• Argus II offers a relatively crude form of artificial vision; users see diffuse spots of light called phosphenes.
  — Kelly Servick, Science | AAAS, 31 Oct. 2019
• Authority has become something diffuse and flammable, like spray paint.
  — Michelle Dean, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2018
• Like one of the smooth wood sculptures inside, its solid form twists and in some cases fractures, opening up large skylights that bring diffuse illumination into the galleries.
  — Sam Lubell, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2020
• Carbon emissions, invisible and with a slow, diffuse impact, are of a different order.
  — Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2019

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diffuse

2 of 2 verb

• The heat was diffused throughout the room.
• The photographer uses a screen to diffuse the light.
• The heat from the radiator diffuses throughout the room.
• Keep in Mind: The fan has a mesh drum, which won't diffuse light.
  — Tanya Edwards, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Sep. 2022
• String of Pearls plants need six to eight hours of sun and diffuse light or shade for the remainder of the day.
  — Kate McGregor, housebeautiful.com, 21 Apr. 2023
• These are the warmest areas of the body, which help to diffuse the scent molecules.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Apr. 2022
• Instead of the vague, diffuse din that pollutes the air at most bars, at Bar Shiru the atmosphere swells with a rich, reedy jazz.
  — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Aug. 2022
• When the ground shifts under our feet, its vibrations are apt to diffuse.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 16 Nov. 2023
• Sometimes the light is stark; other times it has been diffused by morning fog.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2023
• These spokes will diffuse your hair and gently build volume at the roots, leaving your hair full.
  — Marielle Marlys, Good Housekeeping, 2 Nov. 2021
• The gauzy fabric provides a sense of privacy and helps diffuse light.
  — Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Oct. 2023
• The many sides of the ice crystals diffuse the reflection of the light spectrum, which results in the snowflake appearing to be white.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Jan. 2023
• Wg proteins themselves do not diffuse widely from their place of origin in the brain.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 11 July 2022
• If your window gets lots of direct sunlight, pull the plant back a bit or diffuse the light with a sheer curtain.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 30 Aug. 2023
• The Gemini moon has some tricks that diffuse your focus.
  — USA TODAY, 22 Jan. 2024
• After sketching on your wing, use a smudger brush to blur it our for a pretty, diffuse effect.
  — Bella Cacciatore, Glamour, 26 Oct. 2021
• Brown says to line your eyes with a chocolate powder shadow, then use a small, firm brush to diffuse the color.
  — Tia Williams, Harper's BAZAAR, 22 Feb. 2023
• The room’s heavy floor-to-ceiling cotton curtains, made from a William Morris print called the Tree of Life, diffuse the light from a bay window that was added in the 1950s.
  — Carolyn Asome David Fernández, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2022
• This will help the fridge diffuse heat better and run more efficiently.
  — Mimi Montgomery, Washington Post, 28 June 2022
• Per the report, the tapes released on Friday do not depict any of the cops looking to diffuse aggressive use of force.
  — Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 29 Jan. 2023
• Above the fire pot there is a large metal plate or pan that diffuses the heat and distributes it evenly.
  — Bradley Ford, Popular Mechanics, 8 Mar. 2023
• Hoppus, was diagnosed with stage 4 diffuse large B-cell lymphoma and first went public with the news in June of last year.
  — Natasha Dado, PEOPLE.com, 31 Jan. 2022
• So get to posting, aka diffusing that warm and fuzzy feeling the same way that your glitter amplifies the light.
  — Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 29 Dec. 2023
• Sarver's intention to sell seemed to diffuse tensions on what could have been a very awkward day — and season — for the Suns.
  — David Brandt, ajc, 26 Sep. 2022
• Throughout each step, Mendoza makes sure to diffuse the edges of each polish that was airbrushed onto the nails.
  — Chelsea Avila, Allure, 16 Oct. 2022
• He had been diagnosed with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, a type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
  — Ginger Adams Otis, WSJ, 21 Jan. 2022
• If impassioned debates are inevitable for some, can anything be done to diffuse them, or at least take the sting out?
  — Seamus McAvoy, courant.com, 23 Nov. 2021
• Then, take a blending brush and diffuse the edges of the pigment, creating a gorgeous soft, smoky effect all around your eyes.
  — Margaux Anbouba, Vogue, 29 Dec. 2023
• The mutant form does not react to the same stimuli but retains the virus’s ability to diffuse into human cells.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
• Despite a thunderstorm rumbling nearby, the clouds diffused at just the right moment to avoid completely ruining the view of the total solar eclipse on that hot summer day.
  — USA TODAY, 26 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024