LOOSE in a Sentence

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For LOOSE, below is one of 219 sentences:
I smiled when I saw her, one plait loose and the other still held in place with a ribbon, proof of all the mischief in the school bus.

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 Meanings and Examples of LOOSE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
loose
 a.  unbound; untied; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
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."
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
4  She looked in the mirror and automatically pushed up loose strands of hair but she did not see her own reflection.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
5  Scarlett glared at her and Prissy shrank back, trying to pull loose.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
6  Rage and hate flowed into her and stiffened her spine and with one wrench she tore herself loose from his arms.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
8  His stubbly chin sank heavily in loose folds of flesh on his chest.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
9  She could smell the sickening smell of her hair scorching, as it came loose from its pins and swept about her shoulders.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
10  Chilling winds swept beneath the doorsills and rattled the loose windowpanes with a monotonous tinkling sound.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
11  He was thin and sallow faced and his yellow eyes were watery and sunken in creases of loose flesh.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
13  Turn me loose and get out of here.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
14  Archie feared neither God nor man and he hated loose women.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIII
15  She said nothing, curling her toes in the loose slippers in an effort at controlling her quivering.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIV
Example Sentence: (32 in 3 pages)
16  During the night, somebody had cut the boat loose from its moorings.
17  I got down there all out of breath but loaded up with joy, and sung out: "Set her loose, Jim! we're all right now!" But there warn't no answer, and nobody come out of the wigwam.
18  "Here, Bill! catch hold of this rope - Will the roof bear? - Mind that loose slate - Oh, it's coming down! Heads below!"
19  They saw Robin Hood loose his arrow and fell the king's deer.
20  He wore a loose tunic and looser trousers, homespun and dyed in motley green and brown.
21  I smiled when I saw her, one plait loose and the other still held in place with a ribbon, proof of all the mischief in the school bus.
22  How can they get loose when there's a guard over them, ready to shoot them down if they move a peg?
23  A single thread pulled loose, and the entire scarf started to ravel.
24  It was startling to see the spirit of nationalism resurge as the Soviet Union disintegrated into a loose federation of ethnic and national groups.
25  The main reason people loose all their teeth, become edentate, is tooth decay, not gum disease.
26  The only real fault of the book is its looseness of structure.
27  Please bind fast; it is loosing.
28  He loosed the ropes that bound the prisoner, thus allowing him to jump up and escape.
29  She fastened the belt loosely around her waist.
30  He had lost weight and the suit hung loosely on him.