How to Use at loose ends in a Sentence

at loose ends

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• Asher, eighty-three and semi-retired, is himself at loose ends.
  — Laura Miller, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024
• Children of all ages, of course, can have bigger problems than being at loose ends and missing their friends.
  — Lydia Denworth, The Atlantic, 24 June 2020
• Which may be why Crowe, after the premiere, was just standing outside the theater at loose ends.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 14 Jan. 2022
• There are worse places that a rising star can find themselves than at loose ends in Europe in July.
  — Alessandra Codinha, Vogue, 13 Mar. 2024
• Ellis Lacey, our main character in this sequel to Brooklyn, is at loose ends, too.
  — Marshall Heyman, Vulture, 23 May 2024
• When that possibility was removed from him this season, Tom finds himself once again at loose ends.
  — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 13 Dec. 2021
• As John’s stardom grows, Taupin, who writes alone and seldom visits the studio or goes on the road, finds himself at loose ends.
  — Allison Stewart, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2023
• The two women, both at loose ends, embark on a secret, sadomasochistic relationship.
  — The New Yorker, 22 July 2024
• Like so many restaurant workers at the height of the pandemic, Pear Chaisitthisinsuk found herself at loose ends last year.
  — Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 24 Sep. 2021
• One blazing afternoon in the summer of 1973, Rudy Calvo found himself at loose ends.
  — Paula Mejía, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2023
• The most obvious beginning is back in the ’90s, when Stavin’ Chain, one of Capps’ early bands, broke up and left him at loose ends.
  — al, 25 June 2020
• Anxious and at loose ends, Amanda joins forces with Persephone to establish a rhino-protection nonprofit.
  — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2021
• In the early 1970s, Peter graduates from college and is at loose ends, and discouraged about his country and himself.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Jan. 2021
• While a few extra characters are left at loose ends and therefore feel extraneous, those aren’t necessary for the communication of the central ideas of class warfare and hypocrisy.
  — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2024
• But in an unintentional killing or injury, there often is no legal compensation — and that can leave not only the victim’s family at loose ends, but also the perpetrator.
  — NBC News, 26 Oct. 2021
• When the season ends, so, too, does their romance; the couple do not reunite until seven years later, when Laure is at loose ends and Erica is married to a rich man and planning to have children.
  — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
• Last March, as the pandemic swept the world and overburdened hospitals halted surgeries, including transplants, Morrison found himself at loose ends.
  — Laura Parker, National Geographic, 16 Sep. 2020
• Coincidentally, Lucia and Mia find themselves at loose ends after Dominic ends their arrangement early.
  — Donna Bowman, Chron, 13 Nov. 2022
• Anna, an American at loose ends who has lost her last job housesitting, meets handsome Italian Matteo (Lorenzo De Moor) at a hotel bar.
  — Caryn James, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• Their leader of sorts is Portia, a personal assistant from San Francisco who is at loose ends during her boss’s luxury resort vacation on the Italian coast.
  — Ellen Gamerman, WSJ, 11 Dec. 2022