Sentence examples for keyed the from inspiring English sources

Pettitte unraveled in the third, committing two throwing errors that keyed the Dodgers' three-run rally.

She is now engaged to a woman; someone keyed the word "dyke" on her fiancée's car.

Defense keyed the reversal against the Buffaloes (18-7, 6-4).

Four steals by Shumpert and three 3-pointers by Williams keyed the spurt.

The senior center Malik Allen keyed the explosion that took advantage of Pittsburgh's careless ball-handling.

Camby's 18 rebounds and 4 blocked shots keyed the Knicks' victory in Game 1.

When I keyed the ignition in my car, Rock with You came on.

But Tim Duncan played close to the level of his prime, when he keyed the Spurs' four titles.

There was no response, so she pass-keyed the door, pushed it open, and took a step back.

There may be a little of Caravaggio in the dramatic lighting effects of the "Adoration of the Shepherds," with its tight swirl of improbable figures, torquing upward around the illuminated baby Jesus like a flame, the palette typically cold and high-keyed, the old man kneeling in the front possibly a self-portrait, echoing Titian's self-portrait in the Pietà he painted for his own tomb in Venice.

The crown fire is the one that sounds like a train coming too fast around a curve and may get so high-keyed the crew cannot understand what their foreman is trying to do to save them.