Latent used in a sentence

Latent in a sentence as an adjective

Nah, it means that Simon Marlow harbored a latent desire to go code in PHP.

Can they at least include a dust cover so I can subtly project my latent leetness?

It's hard to say for sure, but I find the difference between "cold" recall and latent recall of facts to be pretty large.

Of course I have nothing to back up this suspicion with, and perhaps people have less latent talent than I like to believe.

I spy a latent variable in this correlation.

[+] Guesstimate of current play time arrived at by years of experience rather than by latent contempt for videogaming.

At first those servers are picked at random, but over time the resolvers usually "home in" on what the least-latent nameserver is.

The code tends to keep running longer after the actual error, leaving latent bugs that are harder to debug when they actually surface.

And that a possible cause of this in geek culture specifically is latent adolescent anger at women.

The only reason you can access Google and Amazon is because of the latent electricity in their data centers' cabling.

James Watt discovers the latent heat of evaporation, and realizes that separating the condenser from the piston would improve efficiency.

I theorise that the post gave the hackers of the community an opportunity to vent their latent dislike of superficial or even detrimental UI changes.

"Which is to say, if I hear someone apologizing for the weather, one likely presumption would be that they're just assuming fault as a matter of etiquette, or some latent self-hating tendency... but another, more interesting, possibility is that they're apologizing for not having gotten around to the step in their world domination plans where they build a global climate-regulation system yet. Because they would if they could, they will as soon as they can, and it's only their own laziness and ignorance of proper power/wealth/intelligence-bootstrapping methods preventing them from being there already.

Very popular C library code for modern web platforms has been found susceptible to basic memory corruption issues, because the kinds of people that look for memory corruption bugs don't usually think to troll Github for Ruby, Python, and PHP code with native backend code; terrible bugs can thus stay latent for years in code you can point a URL to and read.