set loose
Example Sentences
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“There’s this bottled-up energy,” he said, and once people are set loose, expenses go up because there’s a community to connect with.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 9, 2026
We gave our children the addictive devices—we were addicted to them ourselves—and felt powerless to control the forces we had set loose in our own families.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025
He decides to set loose his newest products, the Lost Boys, to retrieve the aliens he claims as his by the rule of “finders, keepers.”
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2025
In 1933, 27 bears “whose antics got them kicked out” of Yosemite National Park were set loose in Southern California, The Times reported.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2025
“When it was set loose, it ranged everywhere, from the mountains and plains to the towns and cities; rivers and oceans never stopped it.”
From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko
