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

As if under an enchantment, Allery wanders back to the plant, where he jimmies the lock and completes a day of work alone.

From New York Times • May 7, 2020

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

Instead of a bushel, we’d shoot to catch a dozen or dozen and a half of good jimmies, enough for lunch.

From Washington Post

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

From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed