How to Use fuse in a Sentence
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Next, fuse the cutout leaves to felt, and cut out once more.
— Charlyne Mattox, Country Living, 9 Aug. 2023 -
The brick was now a cylinder, but the onions were still fried well, hot and fused together.
— Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2023 -
And there’s a layer of what tastes like gooey sugar paste fusing the doughnut to the peanuts.
— Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2023 -
The 30-inch long hair was custom-colored and fused in with Keratin tips.
— Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 26 May 2023 -
Conn observes how this has fused rural people to the armed forces.
— Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023 -
When lung cells fused, only the main parts of the cell body connected to each other.
— Byclaudia Lopez Lloreda, science.org, 7 June 2023 -
Milagro opens the box at home, and the scarab fuses with her brother.
— Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2023 -
Genna had back and neck surgery to fuse some of his spine together, but that didn’t seem to help.
— Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 July 2023 -
Think tomboy-chic fused with the sultry design codes that Bebe is largely known for.
— Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 10 Jan. 2024 -
Debbie, voice and image now fused, wants to know if I OD’d on purpose.
— Hazlitt, 20 Sep. 2023 -
But it was fused with audacious total look prints in bold reds and blues.
— Thomas Adamson, ajc, 23 June 2023 -
That’s because, the researchers write, the males are formed from a sperm and egg that never fuse together.
— Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Apr. 2023 -
Strands, the new word-search game still in beta, seems to fuse some of the best features of Wordle, Connections, and the crosswords.
— Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 6 Mar. 2024 -
My ankle was also fused on my right leg, so there was no movement.
— Hunter Woodhall and Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 6 Feb. 2024 -
If anyone knows how to fuse her own style into a red carpet moment, Nicole is the woman to do so.
— Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 30 Mar. 2023 -
The Sonoran is a special kind of sin, a hot dog wrapped snug in bacon and then grilled, fusing the meats into a smoky flavor bomb.
— Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 16 Mar. 2023 -
The mixture slowly cooled and fused into a tuff of rhyolite.
— Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 11 Apr. 2024 -
To those in whose dreams fused nuclei dance, the cold-hot distinction is consoling.
— Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 1 Mar. 2023 -
Pieces from both Lee and Diesel will then be fused together to create new pairs of jeans ranging from light to dark washes.
— Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 18 Dec. 2023 -
Johnson’s right wrist is fused due to a career-ending injury.
— Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Jan. 2024 -
This new range still has the Baby Phat detailing which consists of fusing streetwear and high fashion, which is why so many turn to it.
— Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 3 Oct. 2023 -
You are supposed to clone and fuse yourself in order to conceal your Black or indigenous side.
— Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 22 Feb. 2024 -
By fusing rock energy with her big, bluesy vocals, Ani had the house jumping.
— Lars Brandle, Billboard, 18 Apr. 2023 -
Iron is the most stable element and so cannot fuse to release energy.
— The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 13 June 2023 -
Following the car crash three years ago, Woods had an operation to fuse his ankle in 2023.
— Ben Morse, CNN, 4 Apr. 2024 -
To ensure that nothing, even skin, gets between the couple, the bodies fuse bloodstreams, and the male’s fishy form slowly withers away.
— Max Bennett, Discover Magazine, 15 Jan. 2024 -
It is achieved when two atoms that usually repel are forced to fuse together.
— Angela Dewan, CNN, 21 Feb. 2024 -
To live, the sun must fuse hydrogen in its core, with each reaction emitting just a tiny bit of energy.
— Paul M. Sutter, Discover Magazine, 16 Feb. 2023 -
The cover fuses country-rock with California rap as Hardy lays out the itinerary for his night with the boys: roll down the street smoking indo, shoot some deer with the bullets filling up his pockets, and throw back some G&Js.
— Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 19 Apr. 2024 -
This concert joins a larger effort of prestigious national symphonies bringing in hip-hop artists to fuse the sounds of rap and classical music into a one-of-a-kind performance.
— J.m. Banks, Kansas City Star, 2 May 2024
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While the shell flies through the air, a time fuse is burning.
— Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 30 June 2022 -
The fuse is set so for the grenade to go off as soon as the casing splits open.
— David Hambling, Forbes, 7 July 2022 -
The shell was designed so that the fuse would be lit by the same charge that fired it.
— Henri Hollis, ajc, 4 Mar. 2022 -
The spark that lit the fuse here, again, was the Pelosi Taiwan visit.
— Andy Meek, BGR, 7 Aug. 2022 -
Soon, a spark lit a fuse that set the whole dumpster on fire.
— WIRED, 21 Sep. 2023 -
For the modern man, style and comfort fuse in a pair of ICON.
— Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 25 July 2023 -
The spark that truly lit the fuse, though, was the pandemic.
— Ellen Dong, oregonlive, 7 Aug. 2022 -
But everybody knew these were the guys that lit the match and put it to the fuse that launched the rocket.
— Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 3 Feb. 2024 -
Harris has lit the fuse, but the rest of us have to choose to weather the explosion.
— Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 17 Feb. 2022 -
Replace the fuse with one of the same size, attach the panel, and carry on.
— Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 29 Mar. 2022 -
The soldiers who set the fuse misjudge the timing, and one of them, Lieutenant Charles Pulis, dies in the blast.
— WIRED, 15 June 2023 -
At the signal, the boats launched as if lit by a fuse, oars moving back and forth in unison.
— Kim O'Connell, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 July 2022 -
The mine is designed to hold in place and explode once the hull of a moving ship crushes a fuse.
— Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 16 Feb. 2023 -
But the tense third act builds like a firecracker with a fast-burning fuse.
— San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Feb. 2023 -
Failing to light the gasoline with a long gauze fuse, the vandals tossed a kerosene torch through a porch window.
— Kori Rumore, chicagotribune.com, 24 Feb. 2022 -
For the Golden Gate fleet, the run-up to Saturday has been like a long, slow-burning fuse.
— Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 June 2021 -
While the fuse was burning, the gift of speech usually returned.
— Oleh Sentsov, The New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2023 -
Well, look, the climate change problem, the fuse has been burning for decades, and now the climate change bomb has gone off.
— ABC News, 23 July 2023 -
Here’s what will light the fuse under this stock sooner rather than later.
— Brett Owens, Forbes, 11 Aug. 2022 -
Don has a long, long fuse, but the neighborhood knucklehead wants to light it.
— Helen Shaw, Vulture, 14 Apr. 2022 -
News of Amini’s death lit the fuse of long-smoldering dissent in Iran.
— Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2022 -
In fact, Huffman’s call lit the fuse on a rebellion that would rage across Reddit for weeks.
— Paresh Dave, WIRED, 14 Mar. 2024 -
Goblin gestured him over and pulled from the container a pipe wrapped in black tape and capped with a brass fitting and a fuse.
— Lorenzo Tugnoli, Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2023 -
Cheap Trick would be headlining arenas themselves in less than two years — and in many ways, these shows lit the fuse.
— Jem Aswad, Variety, 6 Jan. 2023 -
Dealers will replace the anti-lock brake fuse at no cost to owners.
— Tom Krisher, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2023 -
Dealers will replace the antilock brake fuse at no cost to owners.
— Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 27 Sep. 2023 -
The new fuse limits the operating current of the brake module, the statement said.
— Tom Krisher, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2023 -
The year is 1772, and on the eve of the American Revolution, the long fuse of rebellion has already been lit.
— Mehera Bonner, Harper's BAZAAR, 13 Feb. 2022 -
The lights have an average lifespan of 2,500 hours and come with a spare fuse and two extra bulbs in case anything needs to be replaced.
— Kylee McGuigan, Popular Mechanics, 26 Sep. 2022 -
The temperatures and pressures become so high that the carbon in the star's core fuses.
— Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 3 Mar. 2023
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