The key may be large or it may be small, but it must be something that will turn a lock.
His wit is indeed delightful and irresistible, but it is not his magic key to souls.
It is a frequent reflection with the stranger in England that the beauty and interest of the country are private property, and that to get access to them a key is always needed.
DES was a procedure whereby data were passed through a series of eight S-boxes, actually mathematical operations, that when combined with a unique user key converted it into what appeared to be alphanumeric gar- bage.
Nogami was inserting a large key into the front door, white with Georgian decorations and a leaded glass transom above.
IBM didn't know it at the time, but the smaller key was already a pushover for NSA's Cray supercomputers, which could try a trillion random keys per second and routinely crack any 56- bit DES encryption in the world in half a day.
Trying to find the DES key when in fact this encryption used some entirely different scheme.
You will remember how neatly we doctored the torpedo boat that followed us to sea from Key West?
I laughed as I put the key in, and opened our door.
She had the key and I, even had I wished, could only have had it taken off by means of another key or melting the gold.
She was the key to the city, and on her flat roofs the opposing armies closed in the final struggle for victory.
The heritage was passed on in those days, when the great key of science which opens all portals had not yet become common property.
Above the arch key of the main door, splendidly treated bas-reliefs of Faith and Justice support from the spandrels an inscription recounting the defeat of the Moors.
Where ribs occur, they meet in the key of the arch separating chapel from ambulatory.
The dreary, fruitless autumn drew on; and Thanksgiving Day bade fair to be such a hollow mockery that in several states the governors did not issue proclamations.
This is the cell," said the Resurrection Man; and, approaching one of the doors, he placed a keyin the lock.
Taking a key from his pocket, he unlocked the door, glanced cautiously behind him, and then entered the Black Chamber.
Taking a key from his pocket, he proceeded to unlock the door of that building.
However, this key you don't have again till my rent is paid.
The Resurrection Man passed half-way up the alley, and taking a key from his pocket, proceeded to open a door that communicated with the ground-floor of his singularly-built house.
Here is the key of your lodgings--not that I think there is much worth the locking up.
The Rattlesnake did not stop to close the mouth of the subterranean vaults, but hastened to apply the skeleton key to the door leading into the alley.
The old woman then slowly ascended the narrow and dark staircase, until she reached the landing, where she drew a key from her pocket, and leisurely applied it to the lock of a door.
Members of the Council on Foreign Relations played a key role in getting America into World War II.
This, then, the flash came, was the key to Wells' cryptic symbolism!
They had come in fighting spirit; the proper key had been hit from the start.
Here, therefore, we have a probable key to the language of the whole inscription, nor can it be regarded as an extravagant idea that a Celt should write his native language in an alphabet already familiar to him.
Here then seemed to be the long-coveted key to the mysterious records of Egypt.
He found it warm as he walked in, and scented like the leaves of the lotus-flower; and gradually the water got deeper and deeper, until he went down altogether and passed through with his head under water.
Anybody is liable to be "impressed" at any moment for the service of the Government.
The relationship of the soul to Christ as His betrothed wife is the key to the feeling with which prayer and love and honour should be offered to Him .
It is because of the strangeness and unfamiliarity of his vision that he is a difficult poet to understand, and the key to the understanding of him is a mystic one.
Hence its value, for it alone gives man the key Of that eternal language, which thy God Utters, who from eternity doth teach Himself in all, and all things in himself.
She heard his returning footsteps, and the sharp click of a key turning in the outer door.
He had a habit of classifying all young women in a general way with his own daughter, as if in possessing that one specimen of the female race he had a key to the whole species.
The door yonder is locked, Clarissa, and the key in my pocket.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "key" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
