Example Sentences

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Buzzing around them are children who frolic unsupervised far into the night, wearing latchkeys on strings around their necks because there is nobody at home to care for them.

From Time Magazine Archive

You and Mrs. will have latchkeys, of course.

From Rolling Stones by Henry, O.

There are two latchkeys, of which John used to keep one and I the other.

From The Vanishing Man by Freeman, R. Austin (Richard Austin)

If the people inside the house will run the place as we want it run, they may stay inside and we will keep the latchkeys in our pockets.

From The New Freedom A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People by Wilson, Woodrow

But young women and latchkeys are common in London, as common as--as dirt.

From Laid up in Lavender by Weyman, Stanley J.