latch onto

Example Sentences

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The female cockroach will crawl up on his back to take a sample, and while she is occupied, the male will whip out a hooked penis to latch onto her reproductive tract.

From New York Times

But the whole show is well cast and performed, and even when the action feels overly constructed or declamatory — and there is a rash of declamation toward the season’s end — there is something or someone pleasing to latch onto.

From Los Angeles Times

They migrate downstream to the ocean and then latch onto a host species such as salmon or rockfish and then feed on their blood.

From Seattle Times

These cousins seem to be succeeding in ways that we in Western culture latch onto.

From Washington Post

Your sympathies may be divided initially, but after a while, you start to wish that it could end another way: that Jen could latch onto Shu Lien and take her away, allowing them to escape not as enemies but as allies.

From Los Angeles Times