jimmy

Example Sentences

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One day, while held alone in the jail’s recreation area, Field said, he heard the sound of a prisoner trying to jimmy his door.

From Los Angeles Times

A ground crew member had managed to jimmy the window open, passenger Matt Rexroad told FOX5SanDiego.com.

From Los Angeles Times

When those songs are stripped from their jimmied narratives and returned to their native format as recordings, they devolve into something peculiar: greatest hits tribute albums.

From New York Times

“You sort of know that when you take a crowbar to a side door of Westminster Abbey and jimmy the lock that there really isn’t any going back, don’t you?”

From New York Times

But in jimmying the original into a more serious musical format as it proceeds, it achieves only a middling geniality.

From New York Times