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Grammar usage guide and real-world examples

"Stretch all the time, until your body becomes as loose as a monkey's".

That peg has begun to feel as loose as a doomed tooth.

Murphy is as loose as a player can be on the floor, an attribute he believes helps him overcome the constant attention he gets.

It was at a scrum, which they were deemed to have wheeled, but the whole notion of penalties awarded at scrum time was a travesty, on a pitch where the top soil was as loose as a rug.

Returning to the roles they created three years ago, Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick are as loose as a pair of all-night jammers in a jazz club trading licks at 3 in the morning.

At each concert in London, by the time the band reached "Rebellion (Lies)," in the middle of its roughly hour-long set, the sound was full, as deliberate as a well-rehearsed string quartet but as loose as a liquoredup marching band.

Neck muscles are known to give out, leaving cyclists with heads as loose as that of a newborn.

If an essay is, in Dr Johnson's phrase, a loose sally of the mind, then this is about as loose as they come – but what a mind!

We encourage links from search engines, blogs and social media," a representative from the Times told me me in an email, asserting that the payfence was built as loose as possible on purpose, in an effort to "maintain [the Times'] significant reach and influence".

Because with a leash as loose as that, he can be genuinely inspiring.

Which, keeping things as loose as possible, has Lara searching for a supernatural MacGuffin that grants "eternal" life.