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
It’s always felt like, “Ah, they’re the cool people that got it figured out and can be loose with conversation with everybody.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2025
Their membership tends to be loose and sometimes overlaps.
From BBC • Dec. 8, 2023
“We don’t know what the drilling machine will have to cut through. It could be loose soil or rocks. But we are prepared,” he said.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 27, 2023
“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
