become unfastened
Example Sentences
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Some washing machines, the suit alleges, vibrate violently under heavy loads causing the tub to "become unfastened, resulting in a dramatic centrifugal explosion that destroys the machine and nearby property."
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 29, 2016
Inside the boat, we are huddled low, holding onto our equipment so it does not become unfastened.
From New York Times • Jun. 29, 2012
On closer inspection they saw that the girl had heaps of black hair that had become unfastened and lay in a heavy coil on the bed.
From Polly's Senior Year at Boarding School by Whitehill, Dorothy
As she was recovering herself, she felt something like a pin prick her wrist; and she wondered vaguely what brooch had become unfastened.
From The Ward of King Canute; a romance of the Danish conquest by Liljencrantz, Ottilie A. (Ottilia Adelina)
Her cap had become unfastened; and her hair fell in golden floods all over me, and down to the floor.
From The Clique of Gold by Gaboriau, Émile
