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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of loose.

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Examples

  • It was April, and White Fang was a year old when he pulled into the home villages and was loosed from the harness by

    The Famine 2010

  • Montyr jerked up his shield almost absently to catch an arrow loosed from a bowman atop the wall.

    The Gauntlet Thrown Chapter Thirty Seven xcpublishing 2009

  • Remarkable scenes — vistas of junk, vast motorways, toxic labor conditions, tribal vehicular gatherings, strange colors loosed from the earth, and the wholesale reordering of nature — so irrationalize our sense of what surrounds us that they can hardly be believed.

    Ballardian » Edward Burtynsky: Oil – A Ballardian Interpretation 2010

  • With this he set off trotting, as he were a mule loosed from the mill, and presently came back, accompanied by Shaykh Tahir himself, who no sooner saw me than he returned to his house and gave the man an hundred thousand dinars which he took and went away blessing me.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Six miles from earth, loosed from the dream of life,

    Above the Clouds at Thirty Below 1944

  • Six miles from earth, loosed from the dream of life, I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters.

    Above the Clouds at Thirty Below 1944

  • It was April, and White Fang was a year old when he pulled into the home village and was loosed from the harness by Mit-sah.

    The Famine 1906

  • His fingers loosed from the Frenchman's throat, and Carnac caught Denzil as he fell backwards.

    Carnac's Folly, Complete Gilbert Parker 1897

  • His fingers loosed from the Frenchman's throat, and Carnac caught Denzil as he fell backwards.

    Carnac's Folly, Volume 2. Gilbert Parker 1897

  • His fingers loosed from the Frenchman's throat, and Carnac caught Denzil as he fell backwards.

    The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

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