Chinese snakehead groups are loose-knit and fluid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Secret Passage To Japan] Reference

After that the clans formed a loose-knit confederacy. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ironhand's Daughter]

There are some fabulous photographers in this loose-knit family.    From Wordnik.com.  [Graveyard Treks and weekend fun: the (near) finally tally] Reference

The loose-knit group has clashed with the rebels during the civil war.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Delano acknowledges that the pro-Hillary crowd is a "loose-knit coalition.".    From Wordnik.com.  ['You're Not Going to Get Pregnant'] Reference

He considers them a loose-knit family, and Pogopalooza, a reunion of sorts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing! Boing! Boing! Boing!] Reference

The Aryans were a loose-knit network of tribes who shared a common culture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Excerpt: The Great Transformation by Karen Armstrong] Reference

The other gazelles watched with interest, forming a loose-knit circle around the two.    From Wordnik.com.  [Child of the Desert] Reference

They are part of a loose-knit, meagerly armed, local defense force called the Arrow Boys.    From Wordnik.com.  [Field Dispatch: The Arrow Boys of Southern Sudan] Reference

It was a loose-knit union of individualistic equestrian aristocrats dominating a peasantry.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shape of Things to Come] Reference

It's a loose-knit group that aims to make a huge impact by tying all Web companies together.    From Wordnik.com.  [Read What They Write] Reference

Groups are coming together to form loose-knit organizations and draw support from each other.    From Wordnik.com.  [Out Of The Closet] Reference

It works for Second Life, and it could work for a more loose-knit set of pocket virtual worlds.    From Wordnik.com.  [If I give you some money will you stop it?] Reference

Medium height, brown-haired and tanned, with a loose-knit physique, he smiled easily and looked genial.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Seduction] Reference

I'd spent weeks looking for a sweater just the right shade of blue, in a loose-knit style I thought he'd like.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maud Newton's 'Conversations You Have At Twenty': Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature] Reference

But researchers agree the clergy glut is even worse in loose-knit denominations that offer little job security.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Clergy Shortage To Clergy Surplus] Reference

Ari is part of a loose-knit group of hackers that has made it a mission to "jailbreak" Apple's iPhone and iPod touch.    From Wordnik.com.  [How I Spent My Summer: Hacking Into iPhones With Friends] Reference

As a loose-knit network, we had already gathered around the idea to reclaim crafting and catapult it into pop culture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Craft Con 2008: Help me. Help you.] Reference

The town fell at the weekend to a coalition of Mai-Mai, a loose-knit group of tribal warriors in eastern DRC who backed.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Now, a loose-knit consortium of hackers and activists calling itself "Anonymous" has declared "war" on the organization.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Passion of ‘Anonymous’] Reference

America was slowly becoming a loose-knit chain of semi-independent feudalities, and there was nothing you could do about it.    From Wordnik.com.  [I Don’t Understand ?] Reference

But for some in the media, hope sprang eternal that this would be the moment that the loose-knit coalition might unravel for good.    From Wordnik.com.  [Big Girls Don’t Cry] Reference

Living on and by the sea the Rovers were quick-witted, adaptive, with a highly flexible if loose-knit organization of fleet-clans.    From Wordnik.com.  [Key Out of Time] Reference

On the surface, your tribe may seem to be nothing more than a loose-knit group of friends and acquaintances to whom you ally yourself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daily Om: Your Allies On Life's Journey] Reference

Riders of proven abilities or ample potential can get contracts with sponsors 'loose-knit "teams" that more than cover competition costs.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com - U.S. snowboarders key to winning: Have fun] Reference

These individual pieces, many of which did not relate to the others, were put together in a loose-knit form controlled by a superior body.    From Wordnik.com.  [Entrepreneurs in a Competitive World] Reference

Following after all of this was a loose-knit crowd of stragglers who had found any number of excuses to follow behind the royal procession.    From Wordnik.com.  [Si'Wren of the Patriarchs] Reference

My thought is that I'd like to ask that the continued expansion and revision of the site be overseen by a loose-knit but select editorial board.    From Wordnik.com.  [The WELL: Announcements] Reference

Several of that loose-knit group of high-level scientists and scientific advisers have made a rather good career of this more examples available.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-11-01] Reference

That being said, the loose-knit jury of folks I engaged thought CBS's Undercover Boss was the best depiction of workers and working family values.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wyatt Closs: Voices of the Economy Amplified: Part 2, Television] Reference

Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images The scattered and loose-knit opposition movements announced they were throwing their weight behind Mr. ElBaradei, center.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chaos, Looting Spread in Cairo] Reference

In that regard, I - along with the thoughts of a distinguished loose-knit jury -- begin a series of entries over the next few weeks leading to Labor Day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wyatt Closs: Voices of the Economy Amplified: Part 2 - Television] Reference

In that regard, I-- along with the thoughts of a distinguished loose-knit jury -- begin a series of entries over the next few weeks leading to Labor Day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wyatt Closs: Voices of the Economy Amplified: Part 2, Television] Reference

Bulgaria on the Volga was a loose-knit kingdom of some importance, and its capital city, Bulgar, was famous and rich when the Mongols occupied it in A.D.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eaters Of The Dead]

Special thanks to those who served on a loose-knit jury of artists, entertainment professionals, and economic justice activists to help make these selections.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wyatt Closs: 2010 Workers' Voice Awards: Worker Worthy Pop Culture Standouts] Reference

While the tea party has some rough edges, Rove said, Democrats will make a big mistake if they try to dismiss the influence of the loose-knit grassroots movement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Karl Rove On Tea Party: 'A Little Raw And Unsophisticated,' But Will Prove Powerful At Polls] Reference

The biggest manhunt in the world to thwart further attacks and build a case against what the president calls "the prime suspect," the loose-knit terror group al-Qaeda.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 22, 2001] Reference