Example sentences for: jimmy

How can you use “jimmy” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Henry VI was the Jimmy Carter of the 15 th century: Ostentatiously pious, surrounded by mediocrities, and oblivious to England's crumbling international prestige, he managed to cripple the military and bankrupt the government simultaneously.

  • Fifteen years ago, Sidney Blumenthal, now a top adviser to President Clinton, wrote an incisive piece for the New Republic examining why then-President Ronald Reagan's frequent factual misstatements hadn't made him as unpopular as Richard Nixon or Jimmy Carter.

  • Fill in the blank as Jimmy Riordan, an organizer of yesterday's Gay Pride parade in New York City, explains why Mayor Rudolph Giuliani was heckled the length of the march.

  • When Jimmy Carter tried to put the issue at the center of his foreign policy, Republicans charged that he was being woolly minded and naive.

  • (They had tried to implicate Jimmy Carter's Chief of Staff Hamilton Jordan as a coke user in the meantime, but the ploy didn't work.)


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