latchkey
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
America had its latchkey generation and, along with that, a growing sense that the world is a dangerous place, especially its wilder parts.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026
Since I was a latchkey kid, I needed to find something else to do after school.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026
"Dinosaurs were more like latchkey kids," Holtz said.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 27, 2026
I view that album in particular very much within the realm of a child who grows up in a latchkey situation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 24, 2025
Just normal instructions for latchkey kids in Garden Heights.
From "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas
Buzzing around them are children who frolic unsupervised far into the night, wearing latchkeys on strings around their necks because there is nobody at home to care for them.
From Time Magazine Archive
This was the examination of the lock which the dead brothers' latchkeys had fitted.
From Lord John in New York by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson
But young women and latchkeys are common in London, as common as--as dirt.
From Laid up in Lavender by Stanley J. Weyman
Watches and latchkeys are attached to a key chain and hidden in the trousers pocket.
From The Complete Bachelor Manners for Men by Walter Germain
If the people inside the house will run the place as we want it run, they may stay inside and we will keep the latchkeys in our pockets.
From The New Freedom A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People by Woodrow Wilson
