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Example sentences for "loosing"

Lexicographically close words:
looser; looses; loosest; loosestrife; looseth; loot; looted; lootenant; looters; looth
  1. Maybe we run that risk, loosing all the devils of the aliens.

  2. Instead, she lifted both hands farther, palm up and cupped, as if she carried some invisible bounty, then flattened them, loosing what she held.

  3. But it so happens that the ruffian's face gets covered with blood; and, seized with one of those fits of cowardice to which he is subject, he runs away, after loosing Raynold upon M.

  4. The missile being lodged in a hole in the strap, the ends of the string are taken in the hand, and the whole whirled rapidly round until, by loosing one end, the missile is let fly with centrifugal force.

  5. A loosing from; an escape; an outlet; an evasion.

  6. The loosing of an anchor from the ground by means of its cable or buoy rope.

  7. First feeding and loosing his dogs in the stockade Marcel hurried to the trade-house.

  8. If there be such a thing as the power of the keys, by Christ concredited to his Church, for the binding and loosing delinquents and penitents respectively on earth, then there is clearly a court erected by Christ in his Church.

  9. Tis the knife and hatchet play; they are loosing us to give us freedom to shrink and dodge.

  10. Jennifer saw it first and pulled up short, loosing his pistols in their cases as he drew rein.

  11. An Indian was at my horse's head, loosing the halter, as I thought.

  12. She had planned the loosing of the bond in the very room where we had knelt to take the good father's blessing upon it.

  13. This course he pursued until he fancied he had completely won her affection, and he could safely show himself in his true character without the risk of loosing his influence over her.

  14. Flint fancied that he had won the heart of the Indian woman, and acting on the presumption that "love is blind," he thought that he could do as he pleased without loosing hold on her affections.

  15. Loosing the strand with his fingers, he reached inside and removed several gold coins, which he placed gently on a table beside her.

  16. To this the other did not reply, but sternly set to work loosing the bonds.

  17. Companies of Amazons crouched behind the high bulwarks of their warship, loosing their arrows in stinging flights.

  18. Behind the battlements and bastions atop the city's walls crouched the Golden Amazons of the garrison, loosing their storms of arrows at the swarming besiegers below them.

  19. Of course, this sounds barbarous, as the sight is; but the death is no worse than loosing off ten rifles into a man.

  20. We used to see them loosing their sails at their anchorage, and many were the surmises as to whether they intended to “sheet home” or only let them fall off the yards to dry.

  21. As they were loosing the colt, the owners said to them, Why do you loose the colt?

  22. As they untied him, a man said to them, What are ye doing, loosing the colt?

  23. In case of difficulty of the kind, he received no assistance from outside sources, but was compelled to wiggle and twist until he succeeded in loosing it from its hold or tore the flesh and skin from his back.

  24. And all that can be obiected against this wide distance is to say that the eare by loosing his concord is not satisfied.

  25. I wot what I meant Iohn, it is for to stay And company the knaue Carrier, for loosing my way.

  26. Then he went slowly down the hill, and saw one of the schooners loosing her sails in a hurried and shifty fashion.

  27. The loosing of the pigs and goats had provided them also with food and sport, and, since collisions between the various hunting parties were not infrequent, life was eminently tolerable, though it lived on the point of death.

  28. To me are all my works, nor Man the least Though last created, that for him I spare Thee from my bosom and right hand, to save, By loosing thee a while, the whole Race lost.

  29. And when the south wind blew softly, supposing that they had obtained their purpose, loosing thence, they sailed close by Crete.

  30. And as they were loosing the colt, the owners thereof said unto them, Why loose ye the colt?

  31. Of course, for all of us the mere physical facts remain the same, the pangs and the pain, the slow torture of the loosing of the bond, or the sharp agony of its instantaneous rending apart.

  32. Loosing his grip, he looked up, this father of wolves; then, making no sound, he sprang straight at my throat.

  33. To speak truth, my father, I have had so much to do with the loosing of the spirits of men that I never troubled myself overmuch with them after they were loosed; there will be time to do this when I myself am of their number.

  34. For an hour or two the old Rose of Devon went plunging through the seas; and there was much loosing and lowering of sails.

  35. All the scrubs and skin-game men were drifting into that corner behind him, until there must have been perhaps thirty gathered, loosing their guns to be ready.

  36. He sat on the edge of the bunk, his hand on hers, as she lay loosing out bit by bit the story of the ransom lost, the Federal Government on the warpath, ten good men deserted.

  37. Then loosing hands, they waltz in couples, singing as a refrain the last line.

  38. At the end of the last line they turn themselves about without loosing hands.

  39. On the other hand, if he finds all the boys without loosing his "stooil," the boy first caught has to take his place and say the "nominy.

  40. Here he comes straight at me, loosing off with both guns.

  41. This is a pretty ticklish job when you have about ten machine guns loosing off at you, not to mention all the other small trifles!

  42. Loosing his hold of the cliff, he turns, facing the rock, and, bending over Gudruda, twists his hands in her kirtle below the breast and above the knee.


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