loose
adjective
free or released from fastening or attachment.
were loosing
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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
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They went to the place and found the ass and the colt, and were loosing them, when the owner said: "What are you doing, untying the ass?"
From The Wonder Book of Bible Stories by Logan Marshall
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
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
Taking one man with me, we went upon the fore-top-sail-yard, loosed the sail and turned out the reefs, while two others were loosing the main-top-sail and main sail.
