Loosely

Examples

• He heard the noise of a carbine scabbard slapping loosely and the creak of leather. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• They projected so far, and they rolled about so loosely, that you wondered uneasily why they remained in their sockets. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• We are all socialists nowadays, said Sir William Harcourt years ago, and that is loosely true to-day. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• At the far end of the table sat the mother, with her loosely-looped hair. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• He had replaced his neckerchief loosely, and had stood, keenly observant of me, biting a long end of it. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Instead of massing them in big bunches as our head-gardener does, she had scattered them about loosely, here and there . Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Most houses are so loosely constructed that fresh air enters imperceptibly in many ways, and whether we will or no, we receive some fresh air. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• As a matter of fact, a modern society is many societies more or less loosely connected. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The scanty parish dress, the livery of his misery, hung loosely on his feeble body; and his young limbs had wasted away, like those of an old man. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• She saw him stooping to the bag, undoing the loosely buckled strap, unattentive. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• When the Greeks go to war, these heads and elders meet in council and appoint a king, whose powers are very loosely defined. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• What we loosely call syndicalism is a tendency that no statesman can overlook to-day without earning the jeers of his children. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Four chambers, C, E, E′, C′, are filled with fire brick loosely stacked with spaces between, in checker-work style. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• If they move him at all, it is only to a quiet smile, as he shakes his hair a little more loosely about his face. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• The horses staggered on, and the reins hung loosely in my hands. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• With his head turned downward, and that conspicuous lock of hair hanging loosely on one side, he looked like Napoleon in the celebrated picture, On the Eve of a Great Battle. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• They were very loosely attached to the lands they occupied. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The safest way is to lay them loosely in a box of dry soil or charcoal. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

Edited by Dwight