FUSE in a Sentence

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For FUSE, below is one of 19 sentences:
A few years ago, a shell of sixty pounds, still charged, and with its fuse broken off level with the bomb, was unearthed.

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 Meanings and Examples of FUSE
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fuse
 v.  combine; blend; become plastic or fluid or liquefied from heat
Classic Sentence:
1  In this atmosphere, as nerve straining as watching a slow fuse burn toward a barrel of gunpowder, Scarlett came rapidly back to strength.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
2  In such emergencies, Judy would usually have turned to Lily to fuse the discordant elements; and Miss Bart, assuming that such a service was expected of her, threw herself into it with her accustomed zeal.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
3  A few years ago, a shell of sixty pounds, still charged, and with its fuse broken off level with the bomb, was unearthed.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—NAPOLEON IN A GOOD HUMOR
4  Her body seemed to melt into his and, for a timeless time, they stood fused together as his lips took hers hungrily as if he could never have enough.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
5  It was Selden himself who unwittingly fused the group by arresting the attention of one of its members.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 1
6  A smell of molten tallow came up from the dean's candle butts and fused itself in Stephen's consciousness with the jingle of the words, bucket and lamp and lamp and bucket.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
Example Sentence:
1  We can fuse the various ingredients into glass.
2  Check whether a fuse has blown.
3  The egg and sperm fuse together as one cell.
4  The bomb had been set with a four-hour fuse.
5  Their solution was to isolate specific clones of B cells and fuse them with cancer cells.
6  The fuse blew as he pressed the button to start the motor.
7  The substances will fuse at a very high temperature.
8  Church and empire were fused in a single entity.
9  Either my headlights have fused or the bulbs have gone.
10  The end of the wire had become accidentally fused with the switch.
11  The aircraft came down in flames, and the heat fused most of the parts together into a solid mass.
12  They are heated to a temperature sufficient to produce a completely fused melt.
13  He has fused his musical talent, his passion for humanity, and his community and political activism into an extraordinary, multi-faceted career.