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How to use jimmied in a sentence

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

Sentence Examples
Within seconds he had climbed to the second storey, jimmied open a window, and disappeared inside.
When she couldn't find the key in its normal hiding spot, she jimmied the lock and let herself in.
This one was normal, she'd have no trouble with that one, she'd jimmied locks before, she could do it again.
Apparently, he jimmied open a window in the rear of the house and came in through the kitchen.
And although the cash register had been jimmied, her purse and a bank bag lay next to her.
After she jimmied her way inside, she punched the pulpit and made blasphemous gestures to the icons.
He jimmied his way into a back office by way of a rear staircase, getting past the cheap lock.
He went into the kitchen, retrieved a steak knife and jimmied open the door.
In a second he'd jimmied the lock open for me with the tip of the blade.
These are not the standard jazz quotations, jimmied into a solo, but ideas weighed, rejected, and alchemized.
He took a rubber band off the top of one of them, removed a piece of plastic wrap, and, with a knife, jimmied out a disk of wax.
He offered to pay for the doors and locks he'd jimmied.
Moreover, the woman in 12-A has had a bee in her bonnet about me ever since I, Debby, while, O. K., yes, a tiny bit drunk, mistook her door for Todd Niesle's late one night and jimmied it open.
Examples from Classical Literature
There he jimmied a window with his pocket knife and got it opened, only to have it fall on his neck when he was about half-way in.
Then he pried off the door of the interior compartment which had been jimmied open.
He jimmied the timer on the rocket motor so it would fire to the last drop.
Kennedy nodded and continued to examine the place where the compartment had been jimmied.
Fletcher swung the door wide, and pointed to a little compartment inside, whose steel door had been jimmied open.
The safe was to be drilled and jimmied instead of being blown, because of the proximity of houses to the bank.
They jimmied the back door and hauled the stuff off in a truck.
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