Sentence examples for loosely for from inspiring English sources

It's rather common for terms which have a precise mathematical meaning to be used loosely for the purposes of emphasis.

NO CAVING IN Many CrossFit aficionados follow a "paleo" diet, named loosely for early humans who ate mostly wild plants and meat.

Rossini turned "Ivanhoe" into an opera and Donizetti did the same (loosely) for "The Bride of Lammermoor .Not everyone loved Scott, though.

The broader term tonality is sometimes used loosely for key, e.g., "The first movement of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony exhibits a strong C-minor tonality".

I use the term "principle" loosely, for that is not so much a legal principle as a refusal to apply any principle when faced with competing constitutional directives.

The Czechs seem to understand that this is no big deal, in a town where historical events are interpreted loosely for the benefit of dramatic effect.

Between temperatures the VCV matrices were highly correlated for FA and measurement error (results not shown), but loosely correlated for the individual variation (females MC = 0.668, P = 0.0355 ; males MC = 0.494, P = 0.1066 ; statistical significance vanishes after the Bonferroni procedure).

But this painting deserves, demands to be looked at without preconceptions, loosely, freely, for pleasure.

Chimera, or chimère, in architecture, is a term loosely used for any grotesque, fantastic, or imaginary beast used in decoration.

In the end, Mr. Sherry assembled 52 "New York composers" (loosely defined) for the photograph, taken by Bruce Davidson.

The name has yet to be decided, the menu is still a question mark and the opening is loosely set for the spring.