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113 examples of Loosen in a sentence

Don't loosen them too far.
If you loosen them too far, you'll have a big mess.
We have to treat this specimen with a chemical to kind of loosen up all the molecules from each other, and then, when we add water, that swellable material is going to start absorbing the water, the polymer chains will move apart, but now, the biomolecules will come along for the ride.
Secreting a screwdriver away from the guards, they were able to loosen a skylight and slip out into the night.
I learn more when I proceed and loosen my grip and proceed openly with curiosity and wonder.
Loosen up!
It's not supposed to have any significance other than getting Ben to loosen up a little, but the direction of the whole scene is wrong-headed, and the outcome is unseen because the idiot editor cuts away...or was that all the film he had?
Treat Williams lights up the screen as Berger, the unconventional and free-spirited hippie who does his best to get Claude to loosen up and is matched scene for scene by Savage as Claude, who brings a lovely sweetness to the role of Claude.
A sophisticated contemporary fable about the stresses that work to loosen and ultimately unbind the vows of marriage.
The acting is not superb, actually, it is not very good, but that is what makes the film funny, it is a comedy, loosen up!!
But in the heat of the spring in April, everyone's lives loosen and unravel (in line with the Victorian corsets) and are slowly rebuilt to everyone's satisfaction.
Whoever didn't rate this movie 10 out of 10, has to get to know LP more, or needs to loosen up cause this movie is the bomb.
CinemaScope fluff directed by a water-treading Vincente Minnelli does allow Peck to loosen up for a change, but the screenplay seems to have been written around the opportunities for mini-fashion shows (indeed, costumer Helen Rose devised the movie's premise, which helped win a Best Screenplay Oscar for writer George Wells).
He really needs to loosen up a bit.
If they are hit by an adverse supply shock or terms-of-trade shock in the meantime, the right step would be to loosen monetary policy sufficiently that the currency depreciates.
Under this scenario, the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) would favor an increase in interest rates, while the FPC would want to loosen monetary conditions.
Will it really loosen capital requirements in order to align itself with the BOE?
Similar problems are already appearing in South Korea, while China has been driven to loosen its one-child policy and unveil plans for economic reforms aimed at reviving growth.
Equity markets will undoubtedly favor Trump’s proposals to loosen fiscal policy, deregulate business and finance, and cut taxes.
The avuncular John XXIII, who wanted to loosen up a hidebound Church, and the combative John Paul II, who struggled to rein in what he viewed as the excesses of the Second Vatican Council that John XXIII had convened, appear to be ideological opposites.
Pressures are mounting on the ECB to raise interest rates – and Berlusconi and Co.’s attacks are as much as an attempt to forestall future rate hikes as to get the ECB to loosen its monetary policy.
They also want a more liberal social environment that would loosen restrictions on their dress, broaden access to cultural products like film and music, and enlarge press freedoms.
However, his campaign has been hinting that, if elected, Moussavi will loosen some social and cultural restrictions.
Europe’s central bankers fear that their political masters will order them to loosen monetary policy, that the structural reforms needed to free up aggregate supply will not be forthcoming, and that the result will be a return to the inflation of the 1970’s.
Thus, unlike many countries in the North, Chile took advantage of the 2002-2007 expansion to run substantial budget surpluses, which enabled it to loosen fiscal policy in the 2008-2009 recession.
"Thatcherism" was not really much of an ideology; it was more a gut reaction to the stagnant 1970's, an attempt to loosen the bureaucratic straitjacket of the state and to reveal that not everything that arose from state benevolence was good.
In 2013, Japan was the only advanced economy to loosen fiscal policy.
First, it endangers new mines and refineries outside of China that are being planned in the coming years – and that would help to loosen China’s iron grip on supply.
Germany must trust that its agreement to loosen the eurozone’s fiscal belt will not lead to a slowdown of structural reforms, and countries like France need to know that excessive austerity will not exacerbate the impact of politically difficult structural reforms in the short run.
After the failure of three consecutive Chinese-selected leaders to address Hong Kong’s concerns, it is no wonder that Hong Kong’s citizens are increasingly seeking to loosen China’s grip on their government.
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