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"Pry" in a Sentence (18 examples)
Don't pry into my private life.
Don't pry into the affairs of others.
They tried to use an iron bar to pry open the lock.
Tom used a crowbar to pry open the lid of the crate.
Tom tried to pry open the box with a crowbar.
Tom spent fifteen minutes trying to pry open the drawer with a crowbar, but he couldn't get it opened.
I didn't want to pry.
I didn't mean to pry.
Tom tried to pry the door open.
Tom finally managed to pry Mary's real opinion from her.
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[W]omen haue eagles eyes, / To prie euen to the heart, and why not you?
[…] to elude, thus wrapt in miſt / Of midnight vapor glide obſcure, and prie / In every Buſh and brake, where hap may finde / The Serpent ſleeping, […]
And choice of studious friends had he / Of Bolton's dear fraternity: / […] / [I]n their cells with him did pry / For other lore,—through strong desire / Searching the earth with chemic fire: […]
Watch thou, and wake when others be aſleepe, / To prie into the ſecrets of the State, […]
We literary hacks are shameless creatures. I believe there's no secret of the human heart into which we wouldn't pry.
The two ship's corporals went among the sailors by the names of Leggs and Pounce; […] Bland, the master-at-arms, ravished with their dexterity in prying out offenders, used to call them his two right hands.
With those beauties, scarce discern'd, / Kept with such sweet privacy, / That they seldom meet the eye / Of the little loves that fly / Round about with eager pry.
"Oh! he's going home to Down East," said another; "so far eastward, you know, shippy, that they have to pry up the sun with a handspike."
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