Loose In A Sentence

Definition of Loose

• The spherical shell has a loose stem which is loaded into the bore and drops out in flight.
• A litter of loose pages at the bottom of the box excited my curiosity but faintly.
• This is the cause of volition, and it is impossible for the effect to be loose from its cause.
• As he dragged the loose bundles over the stubble, he heard a footfall in his rear.
• The house had no cellar, but there was plenty of room under it for stowing away the loose earth.
• We made the freight camp, however, just as the storm cut loose in deadly earnest.
• Little Hana looks like a butterfly in her loose dress embroidered all over with bright flowers.
• Grant that the father bore too strict a hand Upon his loose desires; he should have borne it.
• They had turned the horses loose a mile or so away, and I found them grazing together.
• To gratify a loose desire; My love is chaste, without alloy Of wanton wish or lustful fire.
• Then he jerked himself loose and sprang up, staring about in the darkness for some enemy that he could kill.
• The creeping of salts that took place was only around spots where the edges of the seal were loose from the jar.
• She turned him down; and at the last moment he upset our plans by deciding to cut loose and go with us.
• This was hard by the keeper's cottage, and surrounded by a high fence of loose stones.
• The woman came forward, having little more on her than a loose chintz wrapper and straw slippers on her bare feet.
• Apafi wears a short grey coat with loose sleeves, which is fastened round his loins by a silken cord.
• Then the rain and the thunder burst loose and the waiting town swarmed up the hill in the glare of the lightning like an invasion of ants.
• I clung to them as one clings to a wreck, though he knows he must eventually cast himself loose and swim for his life.
• The breeze swept through the room, flapping the curtains, blowing about loose articles into a strange confusion.
• His loose but well-fitting country clothes, his tie and soft collar, were all well-chosen and suitable.
• Large thorns are easily seen and easily removed, but the abominable ones are the small ones left loose on the surface of the ground.
• The flesh of spawning fish is loose and watery, insipid and tasteless, and rarely brings more than a few pence per pound.
• His boots were killing him, his shin bones ached, and his feet at every step sank to the ankles in the loose sand.
• He would conduct us with careful supervision from the camp to the city, and there let us loose for two hours to play in the bazaar.
• Small purse nets are spread over these, and I always preferred these loose to being pegged or fixed in any way.
• Her head was tied up Malay fashion in a red handkerchief, with a mass of loose hair hanging under it behind.
• But on a loose half-sheet of notepaper between its pages I find this passage that follows, written very carefully.
• Loose ends of rope stood out stiffly horizontal, and, when a whipping gave, the loose end frazzled and blew away.
• He dashed away the heap of rubbish on the hearth-stone, and digging the pick into the loose earth round it, dragged it up without much difficulty.
• The ones and twos were lumped together, the strays turned loose on the plain, and the outfit plodded on to the east, driving their cut before them.
• Myra was robed in a loose gown of fine linen, her dark hair hung upon her shoulders, and a book which she had been reading lay open on her knee.
• Thus he played fast and loose with his conscience, and was really being carried with the tide while he fancied himself to be riding safely at anchor.

• The teeth are loose in my jaws.
• With treadle and fast and loose pulley.
• The ox that is loose is best licked.
• I am suddenly at loose ends....
• To give a loose to love, a love like this?
• What jarred you all loose from Texas?
• Then he turned loose on MacRae with a battery of questions.
• Is it because his will may be loose from the influence of motives?