How To Use Loose end In A Sentence
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The man was another one of those loose ends, potentially a direct link to himself.
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Loose ends still abound in the final reel, leaving the film with a less than satisfying conclusion.
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If you find yourself at a loose end, you could always clean the bathroom.
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But Mezrich's book has the ring of truth about it, not least because it stops short of incredible claims and leaves some loose ends untied.
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Talk Of The Town: If you're at a loose end in Hargeisa after dipping into the cacophonous effervescence of markets crowded with donkey carts amid the amplified calls of the muezzin, you could do worse than go to the Imperial Hotel, just beyond the walled presidential palace.
Mike Arkus: Off the Beaten Track: A Few Pointers for Navigating Somaliland (PHOTOS)
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Many strands remain unresolved but so satisfyingly complex is the central subject, that a few loose ends really don't matter.
Times, Sunday Times
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I need to tie up a few loose ends before I go on vacation.
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Strands b and e are shown secured by unlaying half of each for a suitable length and laying half of the other in place of the unlayed portions, the loose ends being passed through the rope.
Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition
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At least it is safe to say that both series manage to avoid those horribly contrived plot twists whose only purpose is to tie up loose ends.
Times, Sunday Times
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Adolescents are most likely to get into trouble when they're at a loose end.
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He was also at loose ends emotionally.
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I was at a loose end so I decided to go see an old movie.
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Arduus weighed his options - he could easily capture the piece with his, but the game would end in a tie, and he hated loose ends.
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There are some annoying loose ends in the plot.
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The time to throw yourself on a grenade like this and get rewarded is when you are on your way up and perhaps at loose ends.
Waldo Jaquith - Is Gilmore the only U.S. Senate candidate?
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I went into the office for an hour to tie up any loose ends .
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Come and see us if you're at a loose end.
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He's at a loose end and I'd be enormously proud to introduce you.
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The unwanted bits would be cut out and the loose ends pasted together with special transparent editing tape.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Wrap the string around four or five times, with the loose end dangling down in between.
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He departed this world without leaving behind any loose ends and with a sense of having fulfilled his destiny in his own good time.
THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
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Then, feeling a bit morose and at a loose end, I headed for the bar.
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The trouble with films is that we've come to expect them to follow a basic formula, usually involving all loose endings being tied up and a happy ending.
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I went into the office for an hour to tie up any loose ends .
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This excellent and very simple method of horse training is nearly all accomplished by what is called the persuader or bit; which is made as follows: take a piece of strong rope eight or ten feet long and a quarter of an inch thick, then part the horse's mane in the centre, turning one half towards the ears, and the other towards the back of the horse; next tie the rope by one end in a hard knot that will not slip -- not too tightly -- round the horse's neck in the place at which the mane is divided, having the knot on the right side of the neck; then pass the loose end of the rope forwards, along the right side of the neck, into the horse's mouth and back along the left side of the neck to that part of the rope which surrounds the horse's neck, and underneath which it is passed; than take the loose end of the rope in your hand, and you have the persuader or bit completed.
Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets
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Despite countless loose ends, it remains a dense and dazzling piece of celluloid polemic.
Times, Sunday Times
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I need to tie up a few loose ends before I go on vacation.
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At the end of the film all the loose ends are neatly tied up.
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Distin is understood to have already undergone a medical and has only the loose ends of a deal to tie up.
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The unwanted bits would be cut out and the loose ends pasted together with special transparent editing tape.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The author tied up all the loose ends of the story in the final chapter.
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It may provide a time of deepening relationships and tying up the loose ends of a lifetime.
Christianity Today
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I need to tie up a few loose ends before I go on vacation.
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I got the loose end fastened to the boat, and found it impossible to row back against the tide with the fyke.
Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Volume I
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I still had a few loose ends to tie up, but I had a pretty clear picture now of how they had scammed their way to a fortune.
KICK BACK
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Why feel compelled to tidy up all the loose ends and give them a complete package?
Christianity Today
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I was at a loose end so I decided to go see an old movie.
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Are you sometimes at a loose end with the odd morning or afternoon you could spare to help somebody?
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Jonny has just returned from a trip to Florida, successfully tying up the loose ends on the purchase of his latest acquisition.
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All the fans want, really, is a tidy procedure that neatly resolves the loose ends.
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There are still a few loose ends to tie up .
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I had to reach around his waist to grab the loose end of the belt and retightened it with a series of sharp tugs.
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If you find yourself at a loose end, you could always clean the bathroom.
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Why feel compelled to tidy up all the loose ends and give them a complete package?
Christianity Today
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Basically, writers, the lesson to learn is to tie up your loose ends, and make sure that if you raise the stakes in your plot, you show how bad the devastation will be or what there is to lose, etc.
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Storytellers: You Are Obligated To Deliver The Goods
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Here we have half - finished jobs , loose ends , all glaringly obvious in their collective ugliness.
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There are some annoying loose ends in the plot.
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Hope unfulfilled is at the heart of Disraeli's Judaism, as it was also of his personal affairs when, as a young man at a loose end, he produced Alroy.
Vincent - Criticism - Critical Contexts
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Beth nodded, and unceremoniously snipped the loose ends with a pair of kitchen shears.
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We've nearly finished, but there are still a few loose ends to be tied up .
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`'My brother Cyrus and his crew will follow in our helicopter as soon as they tie up a pair of loose ends.
INCA GOLD
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A SHORT postscript at the end of a film often ties up loose ends nicely.
The Sun
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If there are a few loose ends to be tidied up on that front, it is nothing compared to the financial mess in which he is embroiled with one of his former clubs.
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Keep it entertaining, plenty of action and wrap up all the loose ends in fifty minutes.
THE SOUND OF MURDER
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The author tied up all the loose ends of the story in the final chapter.
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There are still a few loose ends to tie up .
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The play has too many loose ends.
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Adolescents are most likely to get into trouble when they're at a loose end.
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When crocheting leg warmers it is important to weave in the loose ends.
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Whereupon he shortly sharked up a list of landless reprobates, Kshatriyas at a loose end, for food and diet; and the enterprise with a stomach in't was, as soon as Alexander's back was turned, to drive out the Macedonian garrisons.
The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19
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Bigot glanced admiringly at her slightly flushed cheek and dainty fingers as she tied the loose ends of his rich steinkirk together.
The Golden Dog
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Finished lacing with and loose ends tucked into the shoe.
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Are all loose ends, storylines and subplots seamlessly tied up in the conclusion?
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I thought I had become fairly politically correct, but there clearly remain a few loose ends for me to tie up before I become a fully-fledged 'identikit' parliamentary candidate.
Its Goodbye to Humour.
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Are all loose ends, storylines and subplots seamlessly tied up in the conclusion?
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To give a very small example of a loose end that bothered me, what does Seb mean when he says ‘you worked the nowhere vases’?
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The author tied up all the loose ends of the story in the final chapter.
