Example sentences for: loosely

How can you use “loosely” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The genre revived in 1995 with Clueless , which was based on Jane Austen's Emma . Cruel Intentions is the zillionth adaptation of the 18 th century French novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses . She's All That is loosely based on Pretty Woman , which was loosely based on My Fair Lady , which was based on George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion . Arriving at multiplexes in the next few months will be O , a version of Othello set against a backdrop of high-school sports, and 10 Things I Hate About You , an adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew .

  • (I use the word "installed" rather loosely, considering that the damn thing crashes every time you try to print a Word document and will not allow you to print anything in "best mode"--a euphemism for the really really slow mode that you have to invoke if you actually will need to subsequently read whatever you printed out.)

  • The decay function is therefore sometimes loosely discussed as if it depended only on deleterious mutations (or only deleterious and neutral mutations).

  • The generic modeling principle has been criticized for being too loosely constrained and leading to databases that are difficult to maintain and query.

  • The U.S. administration on Aging coordinates this loosely knit legal-services network.


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