Ennison stood still for a moment, swinging his latchkey upon his finger.
As the clock struck twelve she heard her husband's latchkey grate in the outer door and she straightened herself up with flushed cheeks.
He climbed up the long stair leading to his floor and letting himself into his rooms with a cumbrous latchkey locked the door behind him.
She had just finished cutting the bread and butter when the latchkey of the Honourable John Ruffin grated in the keyhole.
Pollyooly was rather earlier than he had expected: at five and twenty minutes to five he heard her latchkey in the lock of his outer door, and when it opened he called to her to come to him.
Using his latchkey he entered the square panelled hall silently--with results, for revels were in progress within.
Mr. Iglesias distinctly heard him race up a neighbouring flight of steps, heard the click and turn of a latchkey in a lock, heard the slam of a front door pulled to violently.
As Giddy Mounteagle sings the lines a latchkey turns in the hall lock, footsteps advance down the passage, the dining-room door opens, and Philip Roche stands before them!
He will imagine that a club must necessarily be emancipated, that it will lead you into latchkey habits, and advance your ideas too rapidly.
While his latchkey sought its hole, however, this light was extinguished, and when the door opened, it was Fillery himself who greeted him, a finger on his lips.
He clasps her and kisses her closed eyes; and so they stand for a moment, till the sound of a latchkey in the door sends them apart.
At the sound of a latchkeyshe runs as if to escape into the bedroom, but changes her mind and stands blotted against the curtain of the door.
I'll go and have another look--[He is going towards the bedroom when the sound of a latchkey in the outer door arrests him.
They alighted at the third floor and Morris drew his latchkey from his waistcoat pocket.
You needn’t ring,” she said, taking out a latchkey and showing him into the narrow hall.
Of course the door was locked, but—wonder of wonders—Rosie had left the latchkey outside.
She must have had her latchkey all ready, for she got the door open in a twinkling, and slammed it.
He had not made up his mind to graceful acceptance of the inevitable when he fitted the latchkey in the door of his own house.
At the precise instant when he put his latchkey in the door the door was pulled away from him by a hand within, and he saw a woman of about thirty-five, plump but not stout, in a blue sateen dress, bonneted but not gloved.
Immediately afterwards there was the sound of a latchkey in the front-door of the flat; the bedroom door was open.
With her latchkey she cautiously opened the front door of the flat and entered.
A minute later he was fumbling for his latchkey at his own front door.
There's some one fumbling with a latchkey at the door, trying to open it.
Inserting her latchkey in the keyhole, she turned and opened the door.
He had stretched his hand to the telephone to ring up his motor-brougham from the garage, when he heard the click of her latchkey in the outer door and the silken whisper of her garments passing quickly through the hallway.
He heard the town-clock on the stad square strike five as he pulled out the latchkey from his pocket and let himself in, shouting: "Koets!
Well, like Miss Remsen, Mrs. Dallas's having a latchkeyputs her on an even footing with the people in the house.
Well, Mr. Coroner, that may be true, but I didn't come over here with my latchkey and kill my uncle and trick out his bed with flowers.
And I can tell you, anybody with a latchkeycould get into that house unheard.
He rattled with his latchkey against the door, like a drunken man, could not find the keyhole at once.
He only gave a low laugh, and took the latchkey out of her hand.
At the door she fitted the latchkey into the lock herself.
At two o'clock in the morning she heard his latchkey in the front door, and went down bravely to meet him.
The latchkey for the sidedoor was easy to choose in the glittering light of the latest triple-jetted and reflectored gaslamps which the corporation, to match the glories of the new town-hall, had placed in Crown Square.
In opening the door with his latchkey he was purposely noisy, partly in order to give expression to his justified annoyance, and partly to warn all peccant women that the male had arrived, threatening.
Roger was just ready to be carried upstairs as Mr Blackshaw's latchkey turned in the door.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "latchkey" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: corkscrew; key; opener
