How to Use latch on to in a Sentence

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• Ticks are small bugs that latch on to the body and suck the blood out of both humans and pets.
  — Chanel Stitt, Detroit Free Press, 6 July 2020
• Yeah, the media did kind of latch on to the breastfeeding thing.
  — Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online, 15 Mar. 2022
• There could be legal dust-ups as the ones with the most dollars latch on to a few more.
  — Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 June 2022
• There was also a wound appliance for the snake jaw to latch on to.
  — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 24 Dec. 2022
• The idea was to have this enormous, enormous ship that would latch on to Earth like a big spider.
  — Corey S Powell, Discover Magazine, 24 June 2016
• And few politicians were as ready to latch on to the new threat to reproductive rights.
  — Daniel Strauss, The New Republic, 7 Oct. 2022
• Some males will latch on to a mate for weeks, even months, forgoing meals the entire time.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 17 May 2022
• And there’s this want to latch on to whatever resonates.
  — Melissa Noel, Essence, 13 Dec. 2022
• Instead, the best way to outperform in the past decade was to latch on to large, disruptive-tech stocks.
  — James MacKintosh, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2020
• And starved of living trees, the structures can go dormant in the soil for decades, waiting to latch on to their next arboreal snack.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 15 Aug. 2022
• But this is a first for spores, which are known to latch on to insects and other small animals to travel long distances.
  — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 22 Mar. 2021
• So, for example, the coronavirus needs what’s called an ACE2 receptor on a cell in order to latch on to it.
  — Whet Moser, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2022
• Tammy Faye Bakker’s life has all the sordid events that make playing her obvious awards bait, but what made Chastain so latch on to the role?
  — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 12 Oct. 2021
• Last year, amid mass layoffs caused by the pandemic, Democratic politicians and members of the media seemed to latch on to all of this.
  — Eli Hager, ProPublica, 30 Dec. 2021
• Scientists have said that omicron has more than 30 mutations in the genes that code for the spike protein, which the virus uses to latch on to human cells.
  — Jeannie Roberts, Arkansas Online, 30 Nov. 2021
• Fans latch on to Wilde’s age, her hair, her apparent low levels of hotness compared to Harry.
  — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 6 Sep. 2022
• Montreal equalised through half-time substitute Kei Kamara, who was able to latch on to Romell Quioto’s cross.
  — James Nalton, Forbes, 24 Apr. 2022
• The findings suggest that, as far as coastal species are concerned, there was nothing inhospitable about the open ocean other than the lack of something solid to latch on to.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 17 Apr. 2023
• That spike protein is the thing that a virus uses to latch on to your biological machinery.
  — Sy Mukherjee, Fortune, 25 Feb. 2021
• The hand-cycles, built and designed with the help of local bike workshops, are powered by rechargeable batteries and latch on to wheelchairs with metal bars and hooks.
  — Manuel Rueda, USA TODAY, 4 Dec. 2020
• Some coastal species, like mussels, barnacles, and anemones, clearly need to latch on to a surface as part of their normal life cycle, and so find the open ocean inhospitable.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 17 Apr. 2023
• The Times further reports that many of the social media accounts online are believed to be bots, designed to latch on to trending topics.
  — Chris Harris, PEOPLE.com, 13 Aug. 2021
• But frankly, the patriarch didn’t immediately latch on to the vision.
  — Dallas News, 1 Apr. 2022
• Perhaps people will latch on to this distant robot as a distraction from the strain of the pandemic; perhaps the concerns of Mars will seem extra hard to care about.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 1 Oct. 2020
• But amid buzz-saw synths and industrial-grade beats, familiar vocal samples ring out and give the listener something to latch on to.
  — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2023
• The tiny arachnids — more closely related to spiders than bugs — will latch on to you or your pets, sucking blood and potentially spreading disease.
  — Laura Schulte, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 June 2021
• Unlike the antibodies that latch on to the spike protein, these anitbodies don't prevent the cell from being infected.
  — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 19 Feb. 2021
• But the company was able to latch on to demand from people looking for trips closer to home during the pandemic, fueled by consumers wanting a change of location.
  — Preetika Rana, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2020
• The Youngkin campaign has been aggressive with attack ads that latch on to a movement led by conservative activists against certain curriculum in public schools.
  — David Jackson, USA TODAY, 27 Oct. 2021
• Head louse are parasitic insects that latch on to hair, eyebrows or even eyelashes, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
  — Keira Wingate, USA TODAY, 23 Sep. 2021

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024