Sentence examples for like a latch from inspiring English sources

To invoke an analogy, Arg298 is like a latch on a suitcase, locking the active site barrel in cases in which the active site is appropriately packed.

For driver's side bulb, remove the fuse box cover by first pressing on the front side (press toward back and lift up), no need to monkey it off one side at a time by pressing anything that looks like a latch (that's a good way to break the tabs).

I am not trying to sound like a latch-key kid, but I don't recall doing much more than yelling an approximate destination out loud to no one in particular as I was leaving my house.

The other side of this intensity is that when I have a business idea that I like, I latch onto it like a rabid dog.

"It's like a physical latch in the digital realm – with one app you can just put the latch on and off, reducing the availability of your online accounts when you're not using them, therefore reducing their exposure to hackers," explained Chema Alonso, chief executive of the Telefonica-owned Eleven Paths told the Guardian.

When agitated or offended, Hugh breaks the offender's little finger, and under stress is aware of "sparks in my long muscles and a click in my head like a catching latch in need of oil".

It can also be called a "latch," just like the latch switch.

Some babies take to only one type of nipple and may you go through many nipples trying to figure out which one they like and latch on too.

Here, we present a system of enzymatic reactions that behaves like an RS latch (a simple memory element in digital systems).

Your feelings are like a bug latching onto you, so unlatch this inner whirlpool of woe by getting it off your chest.

Users of Vonage's Wi-Fi handset, a cellular-like phone which latches onto "hotspots" to make calls, are already used to the effects of limited coverage perhaps even worse than what cell users experience.