In a relaxed manner; not rigid.
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Examples for "loosely "
Examples for "loosely "
1 The law still loosely obtains today, administered by London's Natural History Museum.
2 It's loosely based on a true crime story of the late 1950s.
3 But be warned, 'nearby' is a term used loosely in the Kimberley.
4 Remove from grill, loosely cover and allow to rest for 10 minutes.
5 These are not stories loosely based on history: Stewart's research is painstaking.
1 Half an hour later he found Festing sitting slackly by the fire.
2 With wings slackly quivering, softly they die and drop from the wires.
3 He gave a little groan and his hands fell slackly from her.
4 He drank and then held his glass slackly poised while he mused.
5 The leader's hand loosened and the bull's tail slipped slackly from it.
6 His mouth dropped slackly open and he became the picture of idiocy.
7 The constabular mouth dropped open peculiarly wide, and it hung there slackly .
8 It splashed into his slackly opened mouth, it ran over his torso.
9 Ian Malcolm lay on his back, his skin gray-white, mouth slackly open.
10 He released her hands and sank back slackly in his chair.
11 He had been writing slackly , and with intervals of abstraction, since the shots.
12 The reins dropped slackly on Bucephalus's back and he slowed to a walk.
13 His mouth hung slackly open; the inner membranes had gone dry.
14 His lips quivered and worked, his tongue rolled about slackly within his mouth.
15 The plantation, always slackly managed, saw itself now on the high road to destruction.
16 Mrs. Durrant let the reins fall slackly , and leant backwards.
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