unlatching
- present participle of unlatch.
Example Sentences
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An "extremely intelligent" bear that injured four people in northern Japan remains at large as of Friday, after apparently unlatching a window while evading capture and turning on a water tap, officials said.
From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026
Activists “liberated” captive mink as they have for years, sneaking onto mink farms in Utah and Idaho and unlatching the cages of 2,000 mink, who fled into the moonlight.
From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2022
The crew undocked from the station on schedule, first retracting cables that supplied power from the space station, then unlatching 12 hooks that had held the two together for more than two months.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 1, 2020
Then he heard a sound no paramedic ever wants to hear: the click of a patient’s shoulder harness unlatching.
From New York Times ● Jul. 8, 2015
I gulp down a few breaths before unlatching the windows.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
