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"Prying" in a Sentence (11 examples)
The burglar was caught in the act of prying open the window.
Mary caught Tom prying into her diary, trying to find out if she was seeing someone else.
Do you want us to try prying this door open?
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. It is a seeking that he who wishes may know the cosmic secrets of the world and they that dwell therein.
I don't want anyone prying into my private life.
"Well?" I inquired, as soon as we were protected from prying eyes by the leafy screen.
The bushes also serve us as a screen from the prying eyes of the neighbours.
We'll be safe from prying eyes here.
It was an infinite relief to her to be able to breathe the freer and more generous air of the metropolis (where people scarcely know the names of their next-door neighbours, much less their business, and find enough to do in attending to their own concerns) after having lived for so long a time under the prying eyes of the gossipmongers of Iselford.
Dmitri was still scratching and prying at the front door with a huge butcher knife.
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That it is wrongful to do a thing in that it is grubby in the way in which pryings for the sake of prurient interest are grubby, does not by itself make doing the thing an infringement of a claim.
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