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

Nobody wants to be sitting in a cramped seat on a commercial airliner flying at 30,000 feet wondering if the bolts holding the pieces of the jet together might be loose.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 12, 2024

Clothing should be loose and breathable, but cover the skin.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 26, 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