We're looking at reams and reams of negatives, some in envelopes, some just lying loose.
The pedicle of some brachiopods is atrophied; their shells lie loose on the sea floor.
It was wrapped in a greasy piece of fabric, shells lying loose alongside it.
They are looking for such obvious problems as an empty bottle or a pile of pills lying loose.
Instead of growing out of other quartz, Herkimer diamonds are completely formed at both ends, lying loose in their pockets, waiting to be found.
The lymphocytes in lymphoid structures are free to move, although they are not lying loose; rather, they are confined within a delicate network of lymph capillaries located in connective tissues that channel the lymphocytes so that they come into contact with other cells, especially macrophages, that line the meshes of the network.
Sigmund, son of King Völsung, takes his turn, and as if the sword had lay loose for him he draws it from the trunk.
GARLAND, DECONSTRUCTED No need for a fussy composition of wire and heavy evergreens just lay loose stems (here, eucalyptus) on the mantel with a 6' strand of metal beads and a silvered pinecone or two.
Rather than allowing armed conflicts to drag on forever, he promised to win them (putting to work his mastery of military affairs) or, if not, to quit and get out, pausing just long enough to claim as a sort of consolation prize whatever spoils might be lying loose on the battlefield.
Gross appearance of conduit revealed that the tube used for transplantation was lying loose inside the conduit and that the wall surrounding had an even inner tubular shape with a glossy surface under some nonadhering debris).
