1.   Culley waited for the spasm to pass, and loosened his hold a fraction.

2.   Laughing, he loosened his hold until she could pull her arms free.

3.   My mother relaxed, and loosened her hold on my hand.

4.   The government has loosened its hold on the media considerably.

5.   Analysts had expected the central bank to gradually loosen its hold on the peso.

6.   Any talk about loosening his hold on his country has been lost in the din of the welcoming trumpets.

7.   At some point, in a nation that puts a high premium on individualism, the Sudanese will have to loosen their hold on each other.

8.   Back-to-back scoreless shutouts in regulation against San Jose toughened their resolve even if it loosened their hold on the eighth spot in the West.

9.   A pair of scoreless games in regulation against San Jose toughened their resolve even if it loosened their hold on the eighth spot in the West.

10.   No sooner did Andrew Lloyd Webber loosen his hold on Broadway than Frank Wildhorn and Elton John arrived.