work loose
Example Sentences
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I wound them tight and tied the strips together so they couldn’t work loose.
From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson
In 1898 steel studs were introduced instead of cast iron ones, the latter having a tendency to work loose, but the practice is not universal.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" by Various
I’m not used to such goings-on”––and Cherry did what he could to work loose his legs.
From Santa Fé's Partner Being Some Memorials of Events in a New-Mexican Track-end Town by Janvier, Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone)
Their struggles had caused the cord which made fast the craft to one of the poles to become untied and the other pole to work loose.
From A Poached Peerage by Magnay, William
I get anxious about the blinds—do any of them work loose and swing around and bang their lives out in the night?
From The Indifference of Juliet by Hutt, Henry
