Sentence examples for were coming loose from inspiring English sources

I had a decent-sized apartment with oak floors and porcelain hexagonal tiles that were coming loose in the bathroom.

Based on how noisy my tent had been every night before I went into town (a sign that the parachute cords that secure the tent to stakes and rocks on the ground were coming loose), I was a bit worried about how it had fared in the storm.

There was nothing particularly striking about the copyist's apartment: it was a modest four-room prewar with moldings around the ceiling, and I have since mentally supplied it with faded Persian rugs, NPR playing on the radio, and porcelain hexagonal tiles that were coming loose in the bathroom.

A cop from Edmonton gave us a kindly but extremely unsettling warning to keep away from the flooded streets because there was a possibility that manholes were coming loose and, "you don't want to get hit by an 80 pound manhole, that's for sure".

Something is coming loose like aspen leaves, or froth.

THE wheels are coming loose at many so-called programs.

The tile is coming loose, and an exposed light bulb hangs in the kitchen.

But what if you suddenly find that you're plotting all your data on a graph that's coming loose?

When it was noticed that the backing canvas was coming loose they investigated further and found another sketch.

That's just a day in the life of Wahid's Indonesia, where, frankly, the wheels are coming loose.

Deep ties are coming loose, and new ones are forming — new ties that are likely to last a long time into the future.