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Example sentences for: latched

How can you use “latched” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

This old exclamation, probably dating centuries back, had a sudden vogue in the late eighties and early nineties when the sports fraternity latched on to it and spread it everywhere through radio and television.
Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., latched on to this as an excuse to side with Helms.
Liberal social scientists latched onto Elkins' theory as a rationale for creating policies to tear down the barriers that were impeding black advancement in the 1960s.
Here's an example of how De Palma works: The villain is searching for a young woman (Gugino), who, trapped in the hotel-casino, has pretended to be a whore, latched onto a fat man at a gaming table, and disappeared with him into his room.