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
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
When the packs work loose, the lash-strap should be untied, and a man upon each side draw it up again and make it fast.
From The Prairie Traveler A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions by Marcy, Randolph Barnes
We pulled on the knots hard—and they weren't any granny knots, either, that would work loose.
From Pluck on the Long Trail Boy Scouts in the Rockies by Sabin, Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand)
They do not preach that their God will rouse them a little before the nuts work loose.
From The Years Between by Kipling, Rudyard
