church key
Example Sentences
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The pie makes my mouth dry and I think I’ll have a nice drink of ginger ale till I realize you have to have some class of a church key to lift off the cap.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 15, 1999
The church key hung on its nail in the niche.
From Mildred Arkell, Volume II (of 3) A Novel by Wood, Mrs. Henry
No hope! the church key and the vestry key are on the same ring—both inside there!
From The Woman in White by Collins, Wilkie
It was not the church key, though it closely resembled it.
From Mildred Arkell, Volume II (of 3) A Novel by Wood, Mrs. Henry
One autumn evening, when it was very dark, he gave me the church key, and told me to go and fetch a Bible he had left in the pulpit.
From Emile by Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
