How to Use master key in a Sentence

master key

noun

• In other words, the ball is easy, the master key to the way out.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 June 2019
• The trio from the opening scene enters a home, looking for the master key to the power plant.
  — Ashley Chervinski, refinery29.com, 28 June 2020
• Solving the Trump problem is the master key to this election, and no one has found it.
  — Trip Gabriel, Chicago Tribune, 10 Aug. 2023
• The tech at the dealership had a master key and replaced the locking lugs.
  — Bob Weber, Star Tribune, 9 Oct. 2020
• Arredondo requests a master key and mentions the use of a sniper.
  — Rachel Clarke, CNN, 6 Nov. 2022
• The document would prove to be his master key to building a new life.
  — Kyle Swenson, chicagotribune.com, 31 May 2018
• McCraw said that around this time, Arredondo was looking for a master key to the classroom doors.
  — Joyce Sohyun Lee, Washington Post, 17 July 2022
• Using a master key, deputies entered the apartment and found a woman dead.
  — Angie Dimichele, Sun Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2023
• My phone is the digital master key that unlocks my life.
  — Dan Patterson, CBS News, 2 Nov. 2020
• Once locked, you're supposed to be the only one that can open your gun case, and the TSA models allow anyone with a master key in.
  — The Editors, Field & Stream, 12 Aug. 2019
• Marcano’s unit with a master key just minutes before she was last seen at the complex.
  — Fox News, 30 Sep. 2021
• The government held on to the master keys and lent a pair to the medical establishment.
  — Charlotte Shane, Harper's Magazine, 14 Sep. 2022
• Prosecutor Alan Mizrahi: Marty Simms … had the master key to all the apartments in the complex.
  — CBS News, 3 July 2019
• If passports are the key to international travel, then who wouldn't want the master key that opens the most doors?
  — Jessica Poitevien, Travel + Leisure, 11 Oct. 2021
• McCraw said Tuesday there was more than one master key for the classrooms in the school, which would explain why the one Arredondo had did not work.
  — Christina Maxouris, CNN, 21 June 2022
• Cops also reviewed the hotel’s key lock system and saw that a master key was used to enter the couple’s room.
  — Madeleine Marr, miamiherald, 31 Jan. 2018
• Microsoft was then able to search its own logs for the master key that the hackers had obtained and block future access.
  — Joseph Menn, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2023
• Gaining admin access to the hub was like getting a master key to any home that used Zipato’s tech.
  — Zoe Schiffer, Vox, 8 Aug. 2019
• With Charlie Brewer gone, one of these players will be the master key to either success or mediocrity in 2021.
  — Matthew Soderberg, Dallas News, 18 Aug. 2021
• Crooks often are trying to get their hands on checks in the mail or a master key, which can open multiple blue mailboxes in an area.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 16 Mar. 2023
• In the most robberies, armed thieves target mail carriers’ master keys.
  — Laura Rodríguez Presa, Chicago Tribune, 8 Apr. 2023
• Despite a search for a master key to the classrooms by the school police chief, Pete Arredondo, and others, no one called the principal, who had one.
  — New York Times, 17 July 2022
• Booker, according to the document, instructed Brown to obtain a master key for the barracks and give it to him, but Brown was not able to get the key.
  — Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 27 Oct. 2022
• So far in Parma several incidents of thieves using a master key to steal mail have come to light out of the State Road post office.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 12 Jan. 2022
• Booker allegedly suggested that Brown steal the master key for the barracks and give it to him, but Brown couldn't get the key, according to the plea agreement.
  — Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 28 Oct. 2022
• After police opened the door with a master key, the man picked up part of a metal bed frame and started moving toward officers, Dixon said.
  — Dallas News, 22 June 2022
• Police say Marcano was killed by a maintenance worker who had a master key to her apartment.
  — Skyler Swisher, orlandosentinel.com, 25 Jan. 2022
• The thefts come several months after a mail carrier was robbed of a master key in Euclid, which led the way for several blue-box thefts in the Cleveland area.
  — Olivia Mitchell, cleveland, 2 May 2022
• Nearly 20 officers stood in a hallway outside of the classrooms school for more than 45 minutes before agents used a master key to open the classroom’s locked door.
  — Amanda Seitz, Anchorage Daily News, 28 May 2022
• Olsen then grabbed keys from a security guard and accessed several floors and the building’s roof using the stairwell and a master key, the affidavit says.
  — Emma Tucker, CNN, 30 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024