latches

present tense third-person singular of latch

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of latches Typically said when someone copies a trend, latches onto a friend's obsession, or just teases in a playful way. Annabelle Canela, Parents, 5 Sep. 2025 That against-the-odds spirit is what the documentary crew latches onto as the thread tying their story together. Andy Meek, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for latches
Verb
  • When the sky darkens, her stomach clenches.
    Alaa Elassar, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2025
  • In a similar way, a man who is defiant stiffens his neck, squares his shoulders, lowers his brows, and clenches his fists with his knuckles forward.
    Big Think, Big Think, 23 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • This summer, video boards were installed on the end zones and a new scoreboard that is 56 percent larger hangs above the playing court.
    Jason Quick, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The park’s 1,040-foot via ferrata includes two aerial walkways, a 54-foot steel staircase, and a 90-foot suspension bridge that hangs 105 feet above a pond.
    AFAR Media, AFAR Media, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The leadoff round-tripper was the 11th hit this season by Buxton, which ties Jacque Jones (2002) for the Twins’ club record.
    Dan Hayes, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Fall Mug for Everyday Cheer A seasonal mug is a practical gift that also ties the basket together.
    Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Dow clinches record high The Dow on Friday clinched its first closing record high of the year.
    John Towfighi, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The sequencer pastes together the strings and the quality scores, along with some other metadata, read by read, to form what is called a FASTQ file.
    Dmitri Pavlichin, IEEE Spectrum, 22 Aug. 2018
Verb
  • Here, Lloyd clamps a muzzle — part fetish club, part Bane — over Lucky’s mouth while Pozzo pushes him in a wheelchair (the actor, Michael Patrick Thornton, uses a chair).
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Parsley is a biennial that quickly bolts and dies the second year, and since second-year parsley is bitter, it’s typically grown as an annual.
    Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 14 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In that moment, Dupree involuntarily punches him and the pair go quiet as Dooley cusses and bends over wincing in pain.
    Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Autocrats do not think that history bends toward justice.
    Richard Stengel, Time, 1 Oct. 2025

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“Latches.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/latches. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.

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