How To Use jemmy In A Sentence
- in Britain they call a jimmy and jemmy
- Yet any half-competent peterman with a sectional jemmy would have ripped it open inside five minutes. A QUESTION OF PRINCIPLE
- Petra returned to one of the skylights and produced a jemmy from her rucksack. THE RHYTHM SECTION
- The burglar climbed through an open sliding-glass window after jemmying open a security screen in Mr Miller's home in Gillingham Court, Kirwan. Townsville Bulletin Latest News
- It was forced off by either a crowbar or a jemmy and it must have been difficult to get off.
- The man in the shop, perhaps, is in the baked ‘jemmy’ line, or the fire – wood and hearth – stone line, or any other line which requires a floating capital of eighteen – pence or thereabouts: and he and his family live in the shop, and the small back parlour behind it. Sketches by Boz
- Both the government and the opposition insist that they won't back down of their dispute over the re-election of president Ahamadnijad. Jemmy Boean reports from Tehran.
- This malconformation below did not, however, affect his strength -- it rather added to it; and there were but few men in the ship who would venture a wrestle with the boatswain, who was very appropriately distinguished by the cognomen of Jemmy Ducks. Snarley-yow or The Dog Fiend
- 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.
- Yet any half-competent peterman with a sectional jemmy would have ripped it open inside five minutes. A QUESTION OF PRINCIPLE
