be loose
Example Sentences
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Take care when combining the rice, lentils and pasta: The mix should be loose and textured, not mushy.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025
Because when if you’re sitting there as a watcher, listening to all the stuff I say about my dad, you need to be loose.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 9, 2025
Their membership tends to be loose and sometimes overlaps.
From BBC • Dec. 8, 2023
“I’m bouncing around between every event and dancing. I’m trying to be loose and just trying to enjoy it.”
From Seattle Times • Jul. 6, 2023
“You couldn’t get past me here—no room—and if I go back that brute’ll follow—next thing you’d know he’d be loose in the burrows. You leave it to me. I know what I’m doing.”
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
