He pulled out his latch-key and turned it in the lock.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes] Reference

I think Stubby is turning into a neurotic latch-key kitty.    From Wordnik.com.  [marilynnv Diary Entry] Reference

Then he slipped out the back way, taking a latch-key with him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Every Man for Himself] Reference

"Here is your latch-key, Daddy," she went on, handing it to him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Moving Picture Girls at Rocky Ranch Or, Great Days Among the Cowboys] Reference

The Right-Honorable John Tranter swung round, latch-key in hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Crooked House] Reference

By-and-by the man stopped before a door and produced a latch-key.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cruel Barbara Allen From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.)] Reference

Find my latch-key is of no use, on account of the chain being up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, August 15, 1891] Reference

If you want a latch-key, why don't you go to ma and say so like a man?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878] Reference

I fumbled for my latch-key, found it, and wished my friend good-night.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Girl Among the Anarchists] Reference

At the same instant there was the rattle of a latch-key in the front door.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Slave of Silence] Reference

Before she could do so, Grant spoke, producing, as he did so, a latch-key.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Bones Will Keep]

Our mothers sought professional fulfillment, and we became latch-key kids.    From Wordnik.com.  [Millennial Trophy Kids Meet the Cruel Adult World] Reference

With a sudden wry smile, Esther fished in her bag and produced a latch-key.    From Wordnik.com.  [Juggernaut] Reference

"You didn't happen to lose your latch-key during your midnight stroll, sir?".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Crimson Blind] Reference

Treasury note, 7s. 8d. in silver and copper, a latch-key and a powder compacte.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unnatural Death]

"There you are," he said at last, drawing out his latch-key and handing it to Hinge.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Direst Peril] Reference

You know the governor is always down upon me, won't let me have a latch-key, and says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ruth Arnold or, the Country Cousin] Reference

She could not reach the bell, and only a dead latch-key would open it from the outside.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the Big Front Door] Reference

For weeks I bragged about my Harlem flat for which no mosquito could carry a latch-key.    From Wordnik.com.  [Skiddoo!] Reference

Thorne listened night after night for the man with the latch-key, but he listened in vain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878.] Reference

When he arrived at his magnificent bachelor apartments he let himself in with a latch-key.    From Wordnik.com.  [For Gold or Soul? The Story of a Great Department Store] Reference

"I'll climb up," she said, "and I'll leave his house-door open, for he hasn't any latch-key.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Peggy in Her Blue Frock] Reference

Arrived there he stooped at the keyhole, finding some trifle or other there opposing his latch-key.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Old Meerschaum From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.)] Reference

She went back into the room we had left and returned in a few moments with the latch-key, which she gave me.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Queen's Error] Reference

A latch-key grated in the outer door, the doctor's heavy step resounded along the hall, pausing at the salon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Juggernaut] Reference

But he walked upstairs just now with a latch-key in his hand, and he went into the rooms overhead of yours, sir.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Direst Peril] Reference

There are still plenty of latch-key kids whose parents give them a lot of independence, by choice or by necessity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Helicopter Moms vs. Free-Range Kids] Reference

Bertie's stamp it is not the latch-key itself, but the unsuspected latch-key, which confers the liberty they love.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878] Reference

He fumbled nervously in his pocket for his latch-key, and opening the door climbed the three stale flights to his room.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seventh Noon] Reference

When I tried to get in at my own door I found I could not fit the latch-key, and was obliged to hand it to the detective.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Motor Pirate] Reference

It was nearly six in the morning when I arrived, and, fortunately, no one heard me when I let myself in with my latch-key.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Idler Magazine, Volume III, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference

The large boot-tree and latch-key on the circle beneath the handle predict a fortunate and unexpected gain in the near future.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves] Reference

Lavender met his three friends once more, and walked up to the house with them, letting them in, indeed, with his own latch-key.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873] Reference

Somehow or another this little fact had been raked up and a number of wags had cut the shape of a latch-key out of a sheet of tin.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the Cambrian A Biography of a Railway] Reference

He makes a strong appeal to young men, even after the years during which the carrying of one's own latch-key is a source of elation.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference

Laying her travelling-bag upon the ground, she ran swiftly back, but the door had locked behind her, and her latch-key was in her room.    From Wordnik.com.  [St. Cuthbert's] Reference

He opened the door with his latch-key, as quietly as possible, meaning just to take a look, and make things secure for the night, but.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Woman for Mayor A Novel of To-day] Reference