What is "turned loose"

Usage examples of "turned loose".

It would be quite necessary, in order to prevent the effects of intercrossing, that only a single variety should be turned loose in its new home.

I had turned loose into the world a depraved wretch, whose delight was in carnage and misery.

At this season the extra mounts are turned loose to range here until they are needed.

I was now settled in lodgings of my own, abandon'd to my own conduct, and turned loose upon the town, to sink or swim, as I could manage with the current of it.

Had they all been turned loose as soon as captured, their efforts would not have hastened the Confederacy's fate a single day.

The base construction battalion was turned loose on it, and on the seventh day the T'swa moved in.

My rage is unspeakable, when I reflect that the murderer, whom I have turned loose upon society, still exists.

But once in the vicinity of such a camp the mount could be turned loose as if it had only strayed and returned and I could make contact when and if I pleased.

Then a wolf-dog was brought--hyaenadon Perry called it--and turned loose with us inside the circle.

He waited till he got forty or fifty of us poor fellows alone before he turned loose his wolf.

The fields were recently harvested, and swine had been turned loose in the wheat stubble.

Again the unseen mountaineers had used nature to defend their country, had turned loose this flood to rid their land of invaders.

Like a couple of children turned loose in a candy store you and Jack sample everything you can.

The horses were presently turned loose, and from the kneeling camel the Ethiopian assisted Balthasar and Iras.

When his master had gone out, White Fang turned loose and tore around the pen, trying to get at the men outside.