work loose

The net started to work loose.

He likes to work loose and let his actors improvise, and he’s always operated on a small scale.

Unfortunately, without this theoretical grounding, such concepts function in a similar way in Crispin’s work – loose enough to be adopted by the reader in whichever way she sees fit.

I wound them tight and tied the strips together so they couldn’t work loose.

“I am by trade a brickmaker, as my father and his father were before me. My grandfather built our house up against the city walls. It was an easy thing to work loose a few bricks every night. When I told my friends, they helped me shore up the tunnel so it would not collapse. We all agreed that it might be good to have our own way out.”