Unlatch

Getting that right hand to unlatch from the hold it's clinging to desperately when the crash pad is twelve feet under your butt and the next hold requires a great big lunge on awkwardly-positioned feet to get to, and you're, you know, mostly upside-down ... it's a little challenging to the lizard brain. ❋ Truepenny (2008)

I was fingering a vast array of multicolored, multipurpose, neat and folded undergarments, in ever-towering fascination; and I heard the door unlatch, precipitously, smoothly along its well-oiled carvings. ❋ Ivan R. (2011)

Remove the sformato from the oven and scoop from the pan to serve or if using a spring form pan, wait 5 minutes, then unlatch the sides and lift off. ❋ Mary Ann Esposito (2011)

He reached up to unlatch the screen door, motioned for them to come inside. ❋ Unknown (2011)

He stormed out (well, of course, first he had to pull over the stool to unlatch the top "kitty airlock"), and then he took a piece of sidewalk chalk and wrote: "Good-bye" (exactly so without the quotation marks, but with the hyphen and the "e") at the top of the stairs and then ... ❋ Lyda222 (2009)

Ms. Obreht's aim is not to erase textbook history indeed, she sets one scene on the eve of a massacre of Bosnian Muslims but to unlatch her stories from history's rigid factuality. ❋ Sam Sacks (2011)

And inwardly, I promised something else - that I'd find the code to unlatch Galen's collar. ❋ Mllelaurel (2009)

You can't move, then remember to unlatch the seat belt, you thank GOD it worked. ❋ Larry Strattner (2012)

The patience of waiting, when he wanted to go home and when Steward continued to sit at table and talk and drink beer, was his, as was the patience of the rope around the neck, the fence too high to scale, the narrowed - walled room with the closed door which he could never unlatch but which humans unlatched so easily. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And I heard the door unlatch precipitously and smooth, along its many notches. ❋ Ivan R. (2011)

I hear Dr. Nesbitt unlatch his black bag and rattle through it. ❋ Barbara Stuber (2010)

The only way it will unlatch is if I activate a special remote, which is kept locked in a safe in my office. ❋ Kristen Landon (2010)

Maybe he wanted me to unlatch it for him so he could get out. ❋ Denise Jaden (2010)

I unlatch a series of French-door-style windows that open onto the front porch to breathe in the smoggy air outdoors. ❋ Brando Skyhorse (2010)

I get up, unlatch the gate and walk away from my sanctuary, knowing I may not return today. ❋ Unknown (2010)