cast loose
Example Sentences
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An instrument-laden pier survived Harvey’s landfall, but a boat cast loose by the storm later struck and destroyed it.
From Science Magazine • Sep. 1, 2017
One day last week Austria's famed Glider Pilot Robert Kronfeld, onetime holder of the world's record, cast loose from a towing airplane over Calais, tussled with headwinds for two hours, landed at Dover.
From Time Magazine Archive
First, he had to pry his cast loose from the stylized posturing of the kabuki influence.
From Time Magazine Archive
Result: when the Lunar Module was finally cast loose from the mother ship, its computer could not fire its small thruster rockets.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sorrowfully they cast loose the funeral boat: there Boromir lay, restful, peaceful, gliding upon the bosom of the flowing water.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
