LOOP in a Sentence

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For LOOP, below is one of 23 sentences:
I ran up and drove at his head with my spade, struck him fairly across the neck, and in a minute he was all about my feet in wavy loops.

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 Meanings and Examples of LOOP
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
loop
 v.  circle; ring; move in loops; make a loop in; join with a loop
Classic Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1  Feeling about for the obstacle which had flung him down, he discovered that two tufts of heath had been tied together across the path, forming a loop, which to a traveller was certain overthrow.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 4 Rough Coercion Is Employed
2  The lash, however, was curled upon itself and tied so as to make a loop of whipcord.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND
3  The sight of the safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to finally dispel any doubts which may have remained.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND
4  The old lady made one end of the silk thread fast to Tom's tooth with a loop and tied the other to the bedpost.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
5  Having no ornaments fine enough for this important occasion, Amy looped her fleecy skirts with rosy clusters of azalea, and framed the white shoulders in delicate green vines.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
6  She pointed to a wide arch corresponding to the window, and hung like it with a Tyrian-dyed curtain, now looped up.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
7  In its pain it had sought human companionship and help and it made no threatening gesture as she looped one end of the torn petticoat about its horns.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
8  And all along it, wherever it looped or ran, the sunflowers grew; some of them were as big as little trees, with great rough leaves and many branches which bore dozens of blossoms.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: III
9  The arch of its fair trailing moustache was repeated in the fair eyebrows looped above pleasantly astonished eyes.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In GRACE
10  It had loops to go over his ears.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In I
11  So, unless they swallowed the wire itself, or made loops of it to snare the fishes with, I don't see what good their extravagant salary could be to them.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In II
12  There were carved garlands on the panelled walls, and as he stood among them giving us welcome, I know what kind of loops I thought they looked like.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXVI
13  I ran up and drove at his head with my spade, struck him fairly across the neck, and in a minute he was all about my feet in wavy loops.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VII
14  The girls could never be brought to respect tradition in designing and decorating the armour; they insisted on attaching loops and bows of silk and velvet in any situation pleasing to their taste.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 4 Eustacia Is Led on to an Adventure
15  Long graceful ropes of ivy and grapevine and smilax were hung everywhere, in looping festoons on the walls, draped above the windows, twined in scallops all over the brightly colored cheesecloth booths.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
Example Sentence:
1  The road went in a huge loop around the lake.
2  Lay the two ends of string so they make a loop over each other.
3  I hacked up a loop program to test the computer's processing speed.
4  The soldier looped a grenade into the enemy shelter trench.
5  Copper is an extremely ductile material: you can stretch it into the thinnest of wires, bend it, even wind it into loops.
6  The wire threaded through small loops.