church key
Example Sentences
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The pie makes my mouth dry and I think I’ll have a nice drink of ginger ale till I realize you have to have some class of a church key to lift off the cap.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 15, 1999
The church key hung on its nail in the niche.
From Mildred Arkell, Volume II (of 3) A Novel by Wood, Mrs. Henry
But it was not at him that Tommy pointed reassuringly; it was at the monster church key, half of which protruded from his tail pocket and waggled like the hilt of a sword.
From Sentimental Tommy The Story of His Boyhood by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)
He gave her the church key to take home.
From Aylwin by Watts-Dunton, Theodore
Hunt just glanced upwards, and saw it was the veritable church key.
From Mildred Arkell, Volume II (of 3) A Novel by Wood, Mrs. Henry
