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How to use picklock in a sentence

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

Sentence Examples
He was a picklock in the widest sense. Keeping him out of a place he wanted to get into or look into was a remarkably difficult thing to do.
One doesn't want to be seen using a picklock. Now, can you show us the way?
Kornblum had warned him against the tight grip of the amateur picklock, and he was shocked when the wrench twisted like the stem of a watch and spun out of his fingers.
Examples from Classical Literature
Oddly enough the picklock to the captives' minds had been produced by the dolphins.
But it must not be supposed that the life of picklock Holes was entirely destitute of the domestic joys.
Petit-Jehan and De Cayeux were handy fellows and enjoyed a useful pre-eminence in honour of their doings with the picklock.
Now I could distinctly hear someone fumbling gently at the keyhole, apparently with a picklock.
A picklock lay on the floor, which told me how she had gained entrance in the night.
Urgent letters on the subject have just been despatched to his friend picklock, and to the officer in command at Aden.
The ladies consisted of the amiable Baroness de Villeneuve, Mrs. picklock, and my aunt.
The force added 70 officers to the squad in view of the rise in crimes such as picklock thefts and armed robberies.
He had hidden a picklock on him before they had been thrown into the dungeons.
He was so excellent a lawyer, that he was called The picklock of the Lawe.
Less than an hour after Sir Alexander Chalmers had left the room, John Mutch had opened the chest with his picklock.
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