How to Use fuse in a Sentence

fuse

1 of 2 verb
  • 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 work’s subject and provenance confirm her idea of history as something that is elastic, alive and fused with Black myths.
    Kadish Morris, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2024
  • This mattress fuses eco-friendly foams with a soft poly jacquard cover that’ll put you on track to getting your best night’s sleep ever.
    Courtney Leiva, Peoplemag, 17 Jan. 2024
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fuse

2 of 2 noun
  • 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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