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How to use jemmy in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word jemmy? Here are some examples.

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It was forced off by either a crowbar or a jemmy and it must have been difficult to get off.
I do own and use a car, but if I have a jemmy, I certainly don't carry it around.
A jemmy had been used to force the double glazed front door regardless of its five locking points.
A tool, perhaps a jemmy, was used to open a rear door, but the thieves failed to get inside the car.
The typical villain doesn't go out after 10 pm in a stripey jersey, carrying a jemmy and a bag with Swag written on it.
Miss Kelly said their attempt to jemmy the shop door set off the burglar alarm alerting passing motorist Andrew Carlton.
I don't think Friday's incident was a serious attempt to break into the shop as they had just used a crowbar to jemmy the shutters apart.
The burgled British householder used to be caricatured coming down his stairway with poker in hand, while the burglar was cartooned as holding nothing more than a jemmy.
This is the fence and this the gold, the jemmy, the knife, the Browning gun, and this is Whitechapel and it's done for Stinie.
She can think herself lucky it wasn't Danny DeVito cracking her pod open and coyly hiding the jemmy behind his back.
One of the men then clambered through the tiny hole to jemmy open 73 of the 550 safe deposit boxes, which they ransacked.
For an end board, pull together the end joints with a jemmy and wedge in place.
Well, he was a liar and a thief who used charm as his jemmy to break into my parents' house and steal their most treasured possession, which was me.
In this situation, I believe that the Union cannot simply entrench itself behind the question of human rights, or, worse still, line up behind those who would use it as a political jemmy.
The Fuegian they had named Jemmy Button lived like the other natives, had a wife, and had no wish to return to England.
We have to wait till for this cracking contest where Jemmy Doodlebug may find KILDALLON MAID and Accordello too strong, with Maid coming out on top.
Examples from Classical Literature
That is a large basket for so young a lad as jemmy to carry.
Foyle had dropped his jemmy and his hand closed over his pistol.
He made a motion as if to dismiss the man, but jemmy did not go.
While Jemmy was away looking for the revolver, Mr. monger saw two natives following up our trail, and within fifty yards of us.
This afternoon went with Jemmy to the summit of Yeadie, and took a round of angles.
Jemmy the scrubber, unable to imbue the rest of his watch with his own restless activity, gave me no peace night or day.
They got away exactly together, and at a spinning speed, waited on by Massachusetts Jemmy and the gasper.
Jemmy, however, was too old a stager, and pocketed the box and other compliments at the same time.
Then quite privately and uninvited, Jemmy Three began to think.
In this, as in most other of Barny's opinions, Peter and Jemmy coincided.
Wisha, Jemmy, Agra, there's no knowing what you'll be when you grows up.
The gasper to occupy the chair, faced by Massachusetts Jemmy.
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