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Example sentences for "looseness"

Lexicographically close words:
loose; loosed; loosely; loosen; loosened; loosening; loosens; looser; looses; loosest
  1. In contrast to the looseness of the novels and the skepticism of Hume, the reasoning of Butler was employed in defense of sacred truth, and the stern dissent of Whitefield and Wesley was entered against religious deadness.

  2. He seems not to have had the firmness of character nor the frugality of Walid; but he was very severe against the looseness of manners that reigned at Medina, and was highly religious.

  3. The latter, indeed, showed manifestations of a sensibility that is not altogether incompatible with ordinary recklessness and looseness of principle.

  4. The expression "well broken up" is used where this stop and furrow are well marked, and if there is the attendant looseness of skin the animal's expression is well finished.

  5. Having a looseness of the bowels; diarrheal.

  6. Defn: Harshness or roughness of voice or sound, due to mucus collected on the vocal cords, or to swelling or looseness of the cords.

  7. It was this want of organization, this looseness and fluidity of the new movement, that made it penetrate through every class of society.

  8. If faith be preached as that which is absolutely necessary to justification, then faith fantastical, and looseness and remissness in life, with some, are joined therewith.

  9. By means of a special contrivance any slight looseness caused by wear and tear of closing can be adjusted.

  10. In her case the looseness with which her clothes hung was exaggerated by the lack of energy with which she wore them.

  11. Doubtless there is looseness and inconsistency in the whole system.

  12. Looseness of Christian Science Diagnosis As we pass beyond these things which are now commonplace, what she says is not so simple.

  13. Almost any one who has had a practical observation of the working of Christian Science has knowledge enough not only of looseness and inconsistency but of what seems to the non-Christian Science mind positive untruth.

  14. Needless to say there is room for very great looseness of diagnosis in such a practice as this.

  15. This has given to it a baffling looseness in every direction, but has, on the other hand, given it a pervasive quality which Christian Science does not possess.

  16. The feeling of swelling in my feet of walking on sponges sensation continues; a springiness, with a sense of looseness in stepping out, which requires some caution, as if I were not sure of my steps.

  17. I hope that, when proven, Trychosanthes dioica will show its large sphere of action and give our Materia Medica a new remedy for looseness of bowels.

  18. If all the processes have been properly carried out, the parts when tried by inserting the neck or graft for trial, should fit together without the slightest looseness or wriggling.

  19. The superfluous glue will ooze out all around at the junction of the different parts; if it does not, that will be a sign that there is a looseness somewhere, or the surfaces have not been forced together close enough.

  20. In addition to this, bran tends to too great looseness of the bowels, which in the case of young pigs tends to become diarrh[oe]a.

  21. Tares or vetches contain too large a proportion of water for young pigs, and they also have a tendency to cause looseness of the bowels.

  22. A slight dryness and coating of the tongue, with loss of appetite and occasional griping pains or a tendency to looseness of the stools, may continue for a day or two.

  23. In stricture constipation alternates with diarrhoea; in contraction looseness of the bowels is rarely seen.

  24. And he was sensible that all this proceeded not from any kind of Virtue or Abstinence, but from a Looseness and Wantonness, which ought never to be encouraged in any Civil Government.

  25. Some are very simple indeed, and there is but little perceptible looseness of the ends of the fractured part or sign of fracture.

  26. Harshness or roughness of voice or sound, due to mucus collected on the vocal cords, or to swelling or looseness of the cords.

  27. State or quality of being dissolute; looseness of morals and manners; addictedness to sinful pleasures; debauchery; dissipation.

  28. A morbidly frequent and profuse discharge of loose or fluid evacuations from the intestines, without tenesmus; a purging or looseness of the bowels; a flux.

  29. It is to be feared that great looseness of thought prevails in reference to this holy mystery.

  30. Let my reader think of this; let him ponder it deeply; let him guard against all looseness of thought and vagueness of interpretation as to this subject.

  31. Every influence that leads to lightness and looseness in Gentile youth today heads up in a Jewish source.

  32. The lack of proper government surveys, and the looseness with which the records were kept in the land office, put a premium on fraud and encouraged carelessness.

  33. The evident looseness of this statement, for the ship had only been a little over a month off Toulon, shows the impression the service had made upon his mind, for he was not prone to such exaggerations.


  34. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "looseness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.