Example Sentences

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She fashioned little carts of coke — the hard coal used to heat ore — using jimmies and dragées.

From Washington Post • Dec. 23, 2022

A small boy appears, jimmies the flaps off with a dinner knife and instructs the man in how to make a paper airplane.

From New York Times • Oct. 18, 2011

The real deal is a pro-biotic, slightly sour dessert that no amount of jimmies can make palatable, at least to me.

From Time • Aug. 3, 2010

After car rying them in a soft embrace during the mating ritual, jimmies form protective cages around the "sooks," or mature females, as they shed their old shells and wait for new skeletons to form.

From Time Magazine Archive

He jimmies it up a few inches but then immediately shuts it when he gets dust in his eye.

From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed