How to Use safecracker in a Sentence

safecracker

noun
  • The bank was robbed by a professional safecracker.
  • In the end, staff at the Capitol had to hire a safecracker and jimmy the thing.
    — Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026
  • James Caan is fantastic as a safecracker who is trying to leave his life behind.
    — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 3 Jan. 2025
  • High-end safes evoke exciting scenes from the movies, with steely safecrackers listening for clicks or drilling into dense steel with lasers.
    — Michael Wilson, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2017
  • Desai finds a thrill in trying to become a safecracker, seeking the combination to unlock the vault for each week’s ideal plan.
    — Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 8 Sep. 2021
  • In the center of the console were three domed knobs; as Castelli turned these, ever so gently, with the finesse of a safecracker, the impact of the images was altered.
    — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • This requires recruiting safecracker Joe Bang (Daniel Craig).
    — Chris Ball, cleveland.com, 8 Dec. 2017
  • After being released from prison, a safecracker tries to protect his family from a psychopathic contract killer who’s seeking revenge.
    — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2021
  • The safecracker can sort through that accidental information to learn the combination.
    — Andy Greenberg, Wired, 21 June 2020
  • Best of all is Daniel Craig as the expert safecracker Joe Bang, whom the brothers decide to break out of prison for his special skills, then break back into prison once the heist is done.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 17 Aug. 2017
  • Following his Oscar-winning doc Navalny, Roher pivots to narrative features with this heist thriller about a gifted piano tuner turned safecracker.
    — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Tig Notaro and Matthias Schweighöfer do provide comic relief as a helicopter pilot and safecracker, respectively, the latter really serving as the linchpin of the whole operation.
    — Brian Lowry, CNN, 13 May 2021

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