Loosening
[lu:snɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Loosen
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Examples
- In these later days there is in fact, a decided loosening in the creed. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The sides are then run through lime vats for the purpose of loosening the hair. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It may have been a signal for loosening the general tongue. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- He let her get some distance, then, loosening his limbs, he went after her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- And now, indeed, I felt as if my last anchor were loosening its hold, and I should soon be driving with the winds and waves. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I saw him, while I was detained by the loosening of a girth, struggling with the upward path, seemingly more difficult than any we had yet passed. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- It seemed as if it fascinated him to see her push it up impatiently, until it tightened her soft flesh; and then to mark the loosening--the fall. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
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