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
It’s always felt like, “Ah, they’re the cool people that got it figured out and can be loose with conversation with everybody.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2025
You can be loose, and that transitions into your running and into your life.’”
From Seattle Times • Aug. 24, 2023
Who knows where we’re headed, but it’ll be good to be loose upon arrival.
From Slate • Nov. 4, 2022
“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
