Sentence examples for jiffy from inspiring English sources
The word "jiffy" is correct and usable in written English
It is a colloquial term that means a very short period of time. Example: I'll be back in a jiffy, just need to grab something from my car.
noun
A very short, unspecified length of time.
We joked about shipping our bodies home in a jiffy bag.
In practice, North Korea could in a jiffy declare what it possesses, if it chose to.
She scoops out some samples, shakes her tester, and in a jiffy we have the answer.
TAKE two internet technologies designed to serve up web pages, graphics and videos in a jiffy.
Don't expect Mr Allawi to get on top of the insurgency in a jiffy.
Visit this area by road and you'll be whisked along to the Causeway in a jiffy; but explore by kayak and you'll understand its context as you negotiate the geology of the coastline that surrounds the otherworldly basalt towers.
The footage shows him carrying a jiffy bag, looking around the car park, walking behind a pillar, and then reappearing without the bag.
The alleged significance of Mr Brooks and the missing jiffy bag was outlined to the court in the prosecution's opening last November, when Andrew Edis QC claimed the arrest of Mrs Brooks had been anticipated.
A brief clip shown to the court on Monday saw Mr Brooks entering the underground car park clutching a Jiffy bag and, the prosecution claim, a laptop computer.
If Tesco thought an airbrush would sell more mince pies, it would fire the thing up in a jiffy.
