Loosely

//ˈluːsli//

"Loosely" in a Sentence (17 examples)

Mary removed the band from her ponytail and allowed her hair to fall loosely about her neck.

Some of the seams of the dress were held together only loosely by basting stitches, pending the final fitting.

As people age, we find it disconcerting to realize that increasing amounts of our skin and more of our body parts are hanging loosely about ourselves.

Whilst he was slumbering the three Nymphs appeared before him; they were tall and beautiful, half-naked and without sandals; their hair fell loosely over their shoulders, and in every respect they resembled the statues in the grotto.

Juggalos, as supporters of the rap group Insane Clown Posse are known, gather in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington during a rally, Saturday, Sept. 16, 2017, to protest and demand that the FBI rescind its classification of the juggalos as "loosely organized hybrid gang."

Sami uses that term very loosely.

Berber, an Afroasiatic language, is loosely related to Semitic languages.

Helen promotes this unusual sport based loosely on tennis as way for the elderly to have fun and exercise.

The Berber expression "azul fell-awen" loosely translated means "greetings upon you."

The musical ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ is loosely based on ‘Tevye the Dairyman’, a story by the Yiddish author Sholem Aleichem.

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Then she fell back on the altar and her fingers dangled loosely on its edge, her feet uncrossed and lay beside each other.

It was an April Fool hoax, of course. 31200 had been rigged up with a single lightweight wooden [name] plate (loosely held on by Blu Tack).

Insert all the bolts loosely, then tighten them.

It's red, to use the term loosely, sort of brown and sort of orange, let's call it reddish.

a comic loosely based on an Old Norse epic

It is loosely adapted by John Hodge from Irvine Welsh’s novel Porno which imagined them coming together again 10 years on; this of course is 20.

A whale is, loosely, maybe very loosely, a fish.

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