latch
Example Sentences
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“The door was latched and everything. And he’s still too little to walk, anyway. His eyes aren’t even open yet.”
From Literature
Shaw has once again chosen to latch on to Third Point’s dangerously misguided effort to have CoStar Group abandon Homes.com.”
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation said that twice the fuel control switch, which regulates fuel into the plane's engines, did not "remain positively latched in the run position when light vertical pressure was applied".
From Barron's
The door whips open, Marion pulls me inside and locks the latch behind us.
From Literature
The mites' tendency to latch onto juvenile spiders suggests opportunistic behavior, since younger spiders are more exposed to parasites and predators.
From Science Daily
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
