Synonyms

1. loose

Sentence Examples

1. I could already feel the latches begin to loosen even as I thought about it.
2. Playing a fast series of scales to loosen up her fingers, she turned to the choir.
3. This may either loosen the corpse from the soft mud or ooze in which it is imbedded, thus permitting it to rise when other agencies have already prepared it for so doing or it may overcome the tenacity of some putrescent portions of the cellular tissue allowing the cavities to distend under the influence of the gas.
4. He stroked the back of her hands with his thumbs, and she could feel her tense muscles loosen.
5. The pain forced the man to loosen his grasp, and Woody was able to push him back into some garbage cans.
6. They set noiselessly to work, and the Parsee on one side and Passepartout on the other began to loosen the bricks so as to make an aperture two feet wide.
7. He knew from personal experience that a few coins could do wonders to loosen tongues.
8. Kila felt a sense of release as they repeated the deshya, as if he had begun to loosen his grip on the things that caused him the most distress.
9. Panicking, she pulled back towards the shadows, and Sergei felt his grip on her arm loosen as her flesh became insubstantial.
10. The security around his next objective would loosen if they assumed he was dead.