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Example sentences for "unlatched"

Lexicographically close words:
unladylike; unlaid; unlash; unlashed; unlatch; unlawful; unlawfull; unlawfully; unlawfulness; unlay
  1. Sylvia unlatched the door noiselessly and went in.

  2. They unlatched the gate noiselessly and climbed the bare slope of grass.

  3. Kneeling in the faint glow of it they drew on and laced their boots, then unlatched the kitchen window and dropped out upon the snow.

  4. Late that same evening Samuel Rosewarne passed down the streets of Plymouth and unlatched the door of a dingy house which, empty of human love, of childhood, of friendship, was yet his home and the tolerable refuge of his soul.

  5. Finding the window of Dick's room unlatched he threw it up and climbed into the room.

  6. Very gently, he unlatched it and pushed outward upon the panel.

  7. For a minute Barney stood listening for any sign that the noise had attracted attention, but hearing nothing he ran his hand through the hole that he had made and unlatched the frame.

  8. He unlatched it and was off, and never more was seen at Dalton Mill.

  9. So absorbed were they in their own tense feelings that they failed to hear the opening and shutting of the front door, which was left unlatched during the day for just such unconventional calls as the one Mrs. Parr now happened to make.

  10. She would have known that alert turn of the head in any crowd, and now, as his footsteps sounded nearer and nearer, along the narrow board walk that skirted the fences, she unlatched the gate and came out to meet him.

  11. He again took up his lamp, and requesting Wogan to follow him, unlatched the window.

  12. Wogan unlatched the door very carefully and saw through the chink the sentry standing by the steps.

  13. The door leading to Professor Maxon's campong, left unlatched earlier in the evening by von Horn for sinister motives of his own, was still unbarred through a fatal coincidence of forgetfulness on the part of the professor.

  14. A NEW FACE As Professor Maxon and von Horn rushed from the workshop to their own campong, they neglected, in their haste, to lock the door between, and for the first time since the camp was completed it stood unlatched and ajar.

  15. It was a perfect June night, and as he unlatched the gate Barry heard a nightingale singing its love-song to the moon, the deliciously pure notes ringing across the river with a fascinating, almost unearthly, effect.

  16. Still talking, the friends crossed the hall, and Barry unlatched the door of the flat.

  17. Later it became evident that there were a number of people somewhere in the house, because, now and then, the porter unlatched the door and drew the chains to let out some swiftly walking man.

  18. After a long pull he shoved aside his sloppy stein, rose, cautiously unlatched the shutter of a tiny peep-hole in the wall, and applied one eye to it.

  19. There could be no harm in making sure, and he slipped into his clothes, and as silently as possible, unlatched his door.

  20. His foot struck a flat stone, and he plunged forward, striking the unlatched door so heavily as to swing it open, and fell partially forward into the room.

  21. XXXIX DUST AND ASHES A full moon, blood-red from the smoke of forest fires far to the eastward, was rising over the Wahaska Hills when Griswold unlatched the gate of the Farnham enclosure and passed quickly up the walk.

  22. Audrey enjoyed her walk, and it was still early in the afternoon when she unlatched the little gate and walked up the narrow path to the cottage.

  23. As Audrey unlatched the little gate she had a glimpse of Mr. O'Brien in his shirt-sleeves.

  24. And with these words Michael unlatched the little gate, and waited for them to follow him.

  25. It's the doors and windows unlatched that do it.

  26. He remained silent while with palsied fingers Adam unlatched my bolts and bars.

  27. The casement was unlatched and thrust open, and a grey, tousled head pushed out as if in alarm into the keen morning.

  28. The detective unlatched the door, which was of iron wattles too, and put his prisoner inside.

  29. He broke off here, for by this time we had reached Woodbine Cottage, and he unlatched the gate for me.

  30. The management of a large parish was on his shoulders, and he was too conscientious and hard-working to spare himself; but somehow the shadow lying deep down in Max's honest brown eyes haunted me as I unlatched the cottage door.

  31. She unlatched the gate and swung it open for him to pass through.

  32. And she unlatched the door of the tonneau and motioned him to enter.

  33. He felt his way in the darkness to the door of the outhouse, unlatched it, and entered softly, feeling with his hands for the wire- haired coat.

  34. At the gate she hesitated once more, but he unlatched the gate and pushed her gently through.

  35. So he unlatched the little door of his confessional, leaving the light burning in case someone else turned up; he slipped off his stole and came outside.

  36. But the next time I have a chance--" The unlatched door was pushed open and the Major came in.

  37. Then, when the silence seemed continual, she tiptoed down the stairs again, softly pushed open the unlatched door, stole across the anteroom to the curtained doorway and peered in.

  38. And when she had unlatched the door she began to chide him, but he stopped her chiding, and with great groaning he took her to his breast, and she knew by the beating of his heart that evil had come upon him.

  39. There was a night when Mimi did not come; the door was unlatched and the breath of Liliokani was as the perfume of flowers and of spices commingled; yet he came not.

  40. Now Atua, the all-god, was exceeding wroth at this thing, and in grievous anger he beheld how that every night the door was unlatched and Mimi went in unto Liliokani.

  41. The slight noise had failed to disturb the woman, and I succeeded in slipping through the unlatched door without noting any change in her posture.

  42. The door stood unlatched and I pushed it open.

  43. Agnetta advanced slowly to meet her with the empty basin in her hand, and unlatched the gate.

  44. Dick was the first to hear the gate click as she unlatched it and passed into the garden.

  45. She unlatched the glass door and opened it.

  46. She unlatched a little gate in her garden which opened on to the meadow.


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unlatched" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.