set loose
Example Sentences
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“There’s this bottled-up energy,” he said, and once people are set loose, expenses go up because there’s a community to connect with.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 9, 2026
We gave our children the addictive devices—we were addicted to them ourselves—and felt powerless to control the forces we had set loose in our own families.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025
He decides to set loose his newest products, the Lost Boys, to retrieve the aliens he claims as his by the rule of “finders, keepers.”
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2025
Catch one of the most elusive wild cat species set loose in a landscape twice the size of the Lake District National Park.
From BBC ● Jan. 10, 2025
It was a paperback prose translation, abridged, set loose from its numbers, robbed of the music of the ancient Greek but—as far as I was concerned—still a terrific read.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
