loose cover
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Would a tight seal be much more effective than a loose cover?
From Salon ● Apr. 27, 2022
Photograph: Corbis/Christopher Felver "A novel, like a letter, should be loose, cover much ground, run swiftly, take risk of mortality and decay," Saul Bellow once wrote.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 23, 2010
Dr. Beauregard repeated, and suddenly dropped the butt of his musket upon the loose cover of the chest.
From Poison Island by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
With subsequent slight modifications the apparatus consisted in essential of a tank with a loose cover.
From The Preparation of Plantation Rubber by Morgan, Sidney
He found the gold piece, and something else he found, too--a small wooden box with a loose cover.
From Jungle Tales of Tarzan by Burroughs, Edgar Rice
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