loose
adjective
free or released from fastening or attachment.
were loosing
-
past progressiveof loose.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Thought you mightn't make it and jumped on a trolley they were loosing off.
From The Girl from Keller's by Harold Bindloss
And as they were loosing the colt, the owners thereof said unto them, "Why loose ye the colt?"
From The Bible Story by Newton Marshall Hall
The riders lowered their weapons, looked at one another, and then sheathed them; the others, who were loosing Gilbert's horses and mules, suddenly desisted at the sound of the friar's voice.
From Via Crucis by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford
Whatever their lives may have been at other moments, when they were loosing and binding they were acting for St. Peter, who stood behind them, and behind St. Peter stood Jesus Christ.
From Painted Windows Studies in Religious Personality by Harold Begbie
And as they were loosing the colt, the owners thereof said unto them, Why loose ye the colt?
From Walks and Words of Jesus A Paragraph Harmony of the Four Evangelists by M. N. Olmsted
