How to Use skeleton key in a Sentence

skeleton key

noun

• In his design, the postman would sound an alarm by means of a skeleton key.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 8 Aug. 2018
• Single sign-on acts as a sort of skeleton key to all of your accounts across the internet.
  — Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 4 June 2019
• Over the years, Crosby has built a complete game, and his collection of skills makes him a skeleton key in skates.
  — Adam Kilgore, chicagotribune.com, 30 Apr. 2018
• The peripheral Proust may persist as part of our search for a skeleton key to all the others—a way inside.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 3 May 2021
• That can turn a single $100 record into a valuable skeleton key for a buyer.
  — Robert McMillan, WSJ, 9 Dec. 2018
• Moss is The Invisible Man’s skeleton key, the means to opening its every door.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 28 Feb. 2020
• The skeleton key to European literature, it’s both very good and not very long.
  — Molly McArdle, Men's Health, 3 Oct. 2022
• As a reference point, the Bible is a skeleton key that unlocks hundreds of years of culture, from Shakespeare to Kehinde Wiley.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 1 Apr. 2018
• Some people might have a favorite, go-to password, but that's essentially a skeleton key that opens up all private access points.
  — Chris Nicoli, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2022
• This conversation, which takes place early in the novel, feels like a skeleton key to everything that happens after it.
  — Jenny Offill, The New York Review of Books, 3 Nov. 2020
• It’s the difference between cracking safety deposit boxes one at a time and stealing the bank manager’s skeleton key.
  — Brian Barrett, Wired, 2 July 2021
• But running on anti-China messaging also didn’t prove to be a skeleton key for winning Republicans over to the other side.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 17 Nov. 2022
• Dating to his earliest days playing youth football and basketball in Hampton, Va., Notre Dame’s rising redshirt sophomore has been the skeleton key with the uniquely varied skillset to unlock any game plan.
  — Mike Berardino, Indianapolis Star, 7 June 2019
• But Melania’s latest foray into haunted festive design comes closer to providing a skeleton key for the warped mimetic rules of Trumpism than Trump himself ever has.
  — David Roth, The New Republic, 19 Dec. 2019
• Along with serving as mayor — and getting a skeleton key to the city — residents can enjoy local hiking trails, eat at the Hell Hole Diner, play mini-golf and enjoy traditional Halloween activities like carving pumpkins.
  — Slone Terranella, Detroit Free Press, 30 Sep. 2020
• For those seeking to understand the de facto governor of Red America in his latest form, this is the skeleton key — the full realization of his bid to fuse cultural clashes and executive vengeance-seeking as his national signature.
  — Matt Flegenheimer, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 30 Nov 2024