unloose
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
I unloose the cow and leave her and her newborn to each other.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 22, 2018
And in a way this has stifled exactly the sort of catharsis the play is supposed to unloose.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 3, 2014
In the equivalent of flight attendants becoming pilots, caddies became players seven days a week, not merely on Monday mornings, when the clubs where they worked might unloose them onto largely vacant courses.
From New York Times ● Apr. 10, 2010
It was noted by several of the professional spectators that every English playwright has one plot in his system that he must unloose before he is happy.
From Time Magazine Archive
The continents strain to unloose themselves, to drift reckless and heavy in the seas.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
With that said, the marinade is not strong enough to survive the avalanche of ingredients unloosed whenever you cut into Chipotle’s Mission-style burrito.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 15, 2023
“A book I entered hesitantly, cautiously, I exited anew — something in me unloosed, running,” our reviewer, Danez Smith, writes.
From New York Times ● Jan. 21, 2021
Only once is the anger unloosed, in the opening credits, when Amen’s “Coma America” is played at such a volume that it sounds like a scream.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 22, 2019
The right to have the stays of gender unloosed, the right to breathe.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 8, 2018
“This is not just facts. You have unloosed your acid little tongue on this man and said mean and hurtful things here.”
From "The Landry News" by Andrew Clements
And, in the San Francisco Bay Area, burrowing rodents may be digging into entombed trash at a landfill-turned-park, unloosing explosive levels of methane.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2025
But, unfortunately, if the contagion spreads to all the elements of our planet, the consequences of unloosing such a cataclysm can only be viewed with apprehension.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2023
She started to think about how she could craft a fuller version of Iphigenia, perhaps by unloosing more of her internal monologue, and even by refusing to present her as a single, straightforward character.
From New York Times ● Nov. 2, 2021
The effect has been an unloosing of hysteria upon the land.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 3, 2018
An express-wagon had just backed up to No. 21 in that block, and the driver, unloosing ropes here and there, proceeded to unpack the luggage.
From Recitations for the Social Circle by Harvey, James Clarence
