LOOSE in a Sentence
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219 example sentences for LOOSE, such as:
1. Turn me loose and get out of here.
2. Check that the plug has not come loose.
3. A loose rock tumbled over the precipice.
4. Where the knot is loose the string slips.
5. There is a fly on her loose coil of hair.
2. Check that the plug has not come loose.
3. A loose rock tumbled over the precipice.
4. Where the knot is loose the string slips.
5. There is a fly on her loose coil of hair.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of LOOSE
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loose
a. not tight; not closely constrained or constricted or constricting
a. not literal
Classic Sentence: (187 in 13 pages)
1 Mother, the lace is loose on my new ball dress and I want to wear it tomorrow night at Twelve Oaks.
2 As most of them were quite innocent, they had heard little more than that he was "quite loose with women"--and exactly how a man went about the business of being "loose" they did not know."
3 The skin of his pink fat face hung down in loose folds like the dewlaps of a bulldog and his long white hair was indescribably dirty.
4 She looked in the mirror and automatically pushed up loose strands of hair but she did not see her own reflection.
5 Scarlett glared at her and Prissy shrank back, trying to pull loose.
6 Rage and hate flowed into her and stiffened her spine and with one wrench she tore herself loose from his arms.
7 She looked back at Melanie who lay with sick eyes closed against the sun and jerked loose the strings of her bonnet and tossed it to Prissy.
8 His stubbly chin sank heavily in loose folds of flesh on his chest.
9 She could smell the sickening smell of her hair scorching, as it came loose from its pins and swept about her shoulders.
10 Chilling winds swept beneath the doorsills and rattled the loose windowpanes with a monotonous tinkling sound.
11 He was thin and sallow faced and his yellow eyes were watery and sunken in creases of loose flesh.
12 Like monkeys or small children turned loose among treasured objects whose value is beyond their comprehension, they ran wild--either from perverse pleasure in destruction or simply because of their ignorance.
13 Turn me loose and get out of here.
14 Archie feared neither God nor man and he hated loose women.
15 She said nothing, curling her toes in the loose slippers in an effort at controlling her quivering.
Example Sentence: (32 in 3 pages)
1 There were some loose wires hanging out of the wall.
2 Where the knot is loose the string slips.
3 The worker battened down the loose windows.
4 All the pictures in the book were tipped in carelessly and are beginning to come loose.
5 Check that the plug has not come loose.
6 Everyone knows now, thanks to Ken's loose tongue.
7 There is a fly on her loose coil of hair.
8 The allies let loose an intensive artillery bombardment over the border.
9 He proposed a loose federation of small, local groups.
10 Some of the member states wanted a tighter union rather than the loose confederation that developed.
11 Read the five drum in the middle of the night, but the play fast and loose.
12 It occurred to them to offer kids in the neighborhood a bounty for bringing in dogs running loose.
13 A loose rock tumbled over the precipice.
14 A gust of wind pried loose a section of sheet-metal roofing.
15 A series of unsolved murders on the island has raised fears that a psychopathic serial killer is on the loose.