safe-breaker
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Bridgers mutters, in the gruff matter of a genius ex-con safe-breaker who swore she’d given it all up but just agreed to do one last job: “Stakes are so high.”
From Los Angeles Times
“Today the safe-breaker no longer requires those beautifully fashioned, delicate yet powerful tools which were formerly both the admiration and the despair of the safe manufacturer. For the introduction of nitroglycerine, ‘soup’ in technical parlance, has not only obviated onerous labor, but has again enabled the safe-cracking industry to gain a step on the safe-making one.
From Scientific American
The new British-produced film stars Jude Law as a safe-breaker back on the London streets after 12 years in jail and travelling to the south of France to get back money he's owed.
From The Guardian
He had all the contempt for a petty-larceny thief that the skilled safe-breaker has for the common purse-snatcher.
From Project Gutenberg
She was a wit, and she had a beautiful hand, even though she was no better than the rest of Monte Carlo, ruminated the safe-breaker easily, as he squinted, under the flare of a match, at the ward indentations in his wax-covered key-flange.
From Project Gutenberg
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