has loosed
- present perfect of loose (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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After 17 episodes filled with named locations and precise coordinates, the story has loosed its moorings in both place and time.
From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2017
In the past several months, General Petraeus has loosed an extraordinary amount of firepower on the Taliban insurgency.
From New York Times ● Oct. 16, 2010
Along with his blitz krieg of acrimony, he has loosed a horde of acronyms.
From Time Magazine Archive
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored: He has loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword— His truth is marching on!
From A Man of the People A Drama of Abraham Lincoln by Dixon, Thomas
A silent revolution has loosed the tension of the old religious sects, and in place of the gravity and permanence of those societies of opinion, they run into freak and extravagance....
From The Olden Time Series, Vol. 3: New-England Sunday Gleanings Chiefly From Old Newspapers Of Boston And Salem, Massachusetts by Brooks, Henry M. (Henry Mason)
