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Example sentences for "loosens"

Lexicographically close words:
loosely; loosen; loosened; looseness; loosening; looser; looses; loosest; loosestrife; looseth
  1. It follows in the furrow made by an ordinary plow, and loosens the soil to an additional depth without bringing it to the surface.

  2. It loosens his hands, and assists his understanding.

  3. The berry is cup-shaped and fits over a core which is called the receptacle, and from which it loosens when ripe to drop easily into your hand, leaving the receptacle and calyx on the stem.

  4. The fruit, like the other, is cup or thimble shaped and grows on a receptacle from which it loosens when fully ripe.

  5. Visions of light around me seem to flit, And Phoebus loosens all his golden hair Right down the sky; and daisies turn and stare At things we see not with our human wit.

  6. This action loosens the door, which falls behind him, its lower edge resting against the shoulder at f, and bunny is then caught.

  7. The Prongs being very close together it loosens the soil and removes weeds better and quicker than by hand.

  8. The subsoil plow does not turn the soil; it simply loosens the soil so that the air and plant roots can penetrate to greater depths.

  9. Anything that covers the ground or loosens the topsoil prevents in a measure the evaporation of the water stored in lower soil depths for the use of crops.

  10. The fruits which he eats are such as would otherwise rot on the ground and be wasted, or yield nutriment to vermin; and his diggings for earth-nuts and the like, loosens the soil, and benefits the roots of the trees.

  11. This term is particularly applied to a ship riding head to wind, when her anchor first loosens from the ground.

  12. When she wishes to nurse it, she loosens her girdle and slips it round to the breast without bringing it out into the air.

  13. As the season advances, especially in July, the melting of the ice on the surface loosens portions of the land-floe, which float off and join the pack, bringing the leads nearer to the shore.

  14. The willow exercises a winnowing action, loosens the large flocks, and shakes out much of the dirt contained in them.

  15. The blast splits up the stump into firewood, removes all the dirt, breaks all the main roots, and loosens the soil for yards around.

  16. Red Cross" Dynamite not only excavates the required hole, but also loosens the ground for yards around, killing all grubs, and forming a spongy reservoir for moisture.

  17. The ELDER WOMAN draws down the bedclothes from the Queen's body, loosens them from the bed, and throws them on the floor.

  18. Now His hand reluctantly loosens its hold.

  19. It's as if the heat in the heart made by His presence there loosens up the grey juices of your brain, and it begins to work freely and clearly.

  20. The breaking only loosens the red that glues fast with a tighter hold than ever.

  21. And if, while lying still, the iron be hammered, the shaking of the molecules due to the hammering loosens them as it were and assists the earth's power in pulling them into position.

  22. The ordinary plough turns over about eight inches, the special subsoil plough reaches down to about eighteen inches, but the dynamite method loosens the ground to a depth of six or seven feet.

  23. The heat of the arc loosens the bonds between the iron and oxygen, but it needs the presence of some carbon to tempt the oxygen atoms away.

  24. Good Henry, or all good; hot and dry, cleansing and scouring, inwardly taken it loosens the belly; outwardly it cleanseth old sores and ulcers.

  25. The white Beet much loosens the belly, and is of a cleansing, digesting quality, and provokes urine.

  26. It softens and loosens the body of man being eaten, and fortifies the expulsive faculty in him.

  27. It loosens the belly, and gently brings out choler and flegm, but leaves a binding quality behind it.

  28. Another process consists in sweating the hides in a heated room, preferably a damp cellar, where rapid decomposition of the hides soon loosens the hair.

  29. The hides are, therefore, often treated with sulphide of sodium, which loosens the hair in twenty-four hours or less.

  30. She throws the rope to the second Norn and the second throws it to the first, who loosens the rope from the bough and ties it on to another.

  31. THE FIRST NORN [While she loosens a golden rope from herself and ties one end of it to a branch of the pine-tree.

  32. He loosens the helmet carefully and removes it from the head of the sleeper.

  33. The warm breath of spring softens it, loosens it from the rocks on which it hangs, and it slides down into the valleys.

  34. It is the interest that drives a person to further thinking or acting for himself, that loosens his own energies and makes him aware of desire for satisfaction that he did not know he had.

  35. A little tree, no larger in girth than the dogwood, but often taller, has bark that strips and loosens somewhat as the bark of the shagbark hickory does.

  36. When the wind loosens one from the wiry stem, it goes like an arrow, seed downward.

  37. The buds of cottonwood and Balm of Gilead trees are sealed with a fragrant wax which softens as spring loosens the scales and growth begins.

  38. It undermines the richest meadows, and so loosens the turf that it will roll up as if cut with a turfing-spade.

  39. A mite (Cheyletus eruditus) eats the paste that fastens the paper over the edges of the binding, and so loosens it[443].

  40. The roasting destroys any weevils that might be present, gives the rice a pleasant flavor, loosens the husks or glumes and hardens the rice so it may be kept indefinitely.

  41. They are then sunk in the lake which loosens the bark and enables them to be scraped clean, as well as adding to their flexibility.

  42. And loosens their tongues, too," Eve said merrily.


  43. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "loosens" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.