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Sentence Examples So many Danes had settled in eastern England that Alfred was unable to pry them out. Instead, you used pliers to pry at the window, ruining the seals and denting the window frame, making it infinitely more expensive to fix. On the roadside, groups of men pry the bean from the pulpy fruit, tossing the shells aside. If you're a male dung beetle and you want pry another male out of his tunnel, it helps to have a longer horn. To pry away those younger callers, Virgin is playing on their wariness of complicated plans and hidden fees. If you are retrimming an existing door, pry off the existing casing carefully so you won't damage the wall or the doorjamb. The best angle for Democrats would be to pry at the disjuncture between those two numbers rather than to hit the president head-on. It's not like a screwdriver, which you at least can use to pry a paint can open. He didn't vouchsafe any further information, and Wendy certainly wasn't going to pry. If you can't pry out the nails without further damaging the wall, use the snips to cut the bead from around the nailheads. He works with Debbie Harry and I tried to pry some stories about her out of him, but no dice. To avoid damaging the face of the trim, pry nails out the back with locking pliers or nippers. Dallas was standing on the other side of the kitchen window, on the ledge, attempting to pry it open from the outside and crawl in. When no more bubbles showed themselves, he then was able to pry off the door. More amusingly, he briefly attempted to ban me from the campaign after my latest efforts to pry answers out of his blandly evasive candidate. While Kas's hands were busy trying to pry the stranglers off his neck, his legs swung free. If we do not want them guiding it over a cliff, we had best do something to pry them from the grip of leftists. You lift a rotting log with one hand and pry out juicy grubs with your other forefinger. Doors also take abuse from cab riders, who hold doors open, pry them apart, and force objects into the door sills so that they don't close. There would never be anyone who could get up to my room's window in the first place, pry it open from the outside and get in without me knowing. Show More Sentences What seems like only moments later, I am waking up to feel him beginning to shift and pry himself carefully from my grip. We can't seem to pry ourselves away from the daily workplace routine even if we're thousands of miles away. She was fascinated by it, told anyone who was willing to listen, and abandoned her mission to seek and pry open shongololos. My ears strained toward the sirens and my heart pounded as the officers used a crowbar to pry away the door. Searching for something to pry it off, she reached around blindly, but found nothing. He walked over to the stall, looked in, and found her struggling to pry a small window open. I noticed it when I realized I was using my mattock as a pry bar, not for rocks, as was intended, but for myself. Once I could pry my icy fingers off the bagel I was eating, I shut the door. She hated to lose, this one, and he had pushed her hard, using her pride as a lever to pry away at any subterfuge. He watched as the coil rose above their heads, and then he tried to pry the snake away as it began to tighten its coils around them. In fact, I'm guessing they'll have to pry him loose from the furniture if they want to get him out of his dressing room for a rematch with Marco. A quick and wordless wrestle ensued, both men exerting themselves physically to pry away the files. For any individual, privacy should be respected, with no one allowed to pry into and comment on someone else's personal affairs. My idle hands proceeded to pound, wrench, twist, pry, and yank at anything I could get a hold on. Whatever had passed between them outside was private, and we didn't pry further. He wondered why Chinese are so persistent in their effort to pry into other people's personal affairs. We pry the superglued fan off, and replace the now damaged CPU fan, and give him a stern warning not to open his case again. My plates are 10 years old and I still have to pry the top plate out every day to remove them, the fit is that good. Despite security concerns, he says they'll have to pry his BlackBerry out of his hands. Not being one to pry I simply privately wondered at the specifics involved. Show More Sentences The only way I can wink properly is if I pry one eye open and prop it up with one finger. The thief used a hammer to pry open a padlock securing a door on the cabin and removed an empty cash box. He uses a compact flathead screwdriver to pry open the latch, and then he carefully opens the panel. Thrust 2 spading forks, back to back, into the clump and, using the handles of the forks as levers, pry the roots apart. It can, however, be used as a pry bar to keep one from obsession if wielded in a certain way. Using a hammer and a small cold chisel, crack the tile between the holes and pry it away from the wall. See if you can pry the insole up and see what's going on in the inner workings. Word on the streets is that once you've been confided in, toothpicks under your fingernails couldn't pry secrets out of you. It hadn't been opened in years, and she had to use all of her strength pry it free with a loud cracking sound. White-tailed eagles, which inhabit the same territory, may struggle for hours merely to pry an opening around a fish's gills or front fin. Remove the shoe moldings, trim pieces, door thresholds, and floor grates carefully, using a pry bar and a scrap of wood for a leverage wedge so as not to mar the baseboard. Use a fingernail or a slender tool carefully to pry the adapter free, as shown. Acquaintances will surely pry about the willowy new outlines of your once sinewless figure, pumping you for diet tips amidst sly inquiries about wasting diseases. Those punish snoops who pry into someone else's private affairs, anyone who publicly discloses embarrassing private facts, and publicity that shows someone in a false light. With a small flathead screwdriver, gently pry the drive free. Then, using a flat pry bar, carefully pull the damaged board away from the eaves. Place a pry bar under the tire and lift it enough to offset the weight of the wheel and tire. At the time of the occurrence, neither flight crew member remembered or was aware that there was a pry bar on the aircraft. Included in the equipment, and of interest in this occurrence, are an axe, a pry bar, and four flashlights. One of the flight crew had indicated on a written test that he knew there was a pry bar, which is standard emergency equipment, on the aircraft. Show More Sentences Always insert a pry bar or other device under the bottom of the frame of the washer-extractor to move it. Check the play in the torque rod by placing a pry bar under each extremity and then pressing down. Ms. White's predecessors have wrangled with Congress for years, seeking to pry open its purse strings. Gifted with a particular sensitivity and method, a theorist can pry open the world. Those metal doors were too hot to pry open when the fire raged hours later. Use a small regular screwdriver to pry open the battery holder and pull out the black ribbon. En route to Auschwitz by cattle car, a friend and I worked all day to pry open the bars of the window. Insert a small flathead screwdriver into the slot and gently pry open the transmitter. Similarly, competition provisions should not simply be a lever to pry open heretofore monopolistic domestic markets in developing countries. Canada rightly decries US and EU subsidies, but at the same time supports rules that pry open markets and compound the damage. They jumped out of their Humvee, and they tried to pry open the door with a pickaxe. While Canada rightly decries US and EU subsidies, at the same time it supports rules that pry open developing country markets. The bander's fingernails are used to pry open bills, so maintaining some fingernail length is useful. Put your thumb in the mouth, between the teeth, and gently pry the mouth open. A determined government can already exploit the country's computer networks to pry into its citizens' lives. Here, when reporters pry into Elaine's private life, the secretary of state lets them have it. Some fear their sample could be used to pry into other areas of their lives. Cameras pry into benefits street but none invade this private life of the nation. Critics say the law gives the government the ability to pry into people's personal reading habits. Let them know you want to talk with them because you want them to be safe, not because you want to pry into their personal lives. Show More Sentences It sounds easy, but watch out for the dragonfly! He's mean and will pry into your affairs to bother you. Validy uses secure chips from established silicon vendors to ensure that the token is extremely difficult to pry into. It's quite possible that Acura reps will need a hooligan bar to pry my fingers off the stick shift in this week's tester. In a second term, he should make a concerted effort to pry Brazil free from its low-growth trap. The restraints imposed on government to pry into the lives of the citizen go to the essence of a democratic state. No one will admit it, but if you pry a little you'll find out the weirdest things about people. Remove the static shield from the drive bay by using a flat-blade screwdriver to gently pry it loose. To remove fittings, press or pry ring towards the coupling body with a small screwdriver while pulling coupling away from flow module. Loosen the panel a of the soft-close mechanism: Slowly pry the panel off from the top. Use a screwdriver to carefully pry off the cover of the fuses on the back side of the unit. After the main drive, men sweep the brook using pike poles to pry loose some of the logs caught along the banks. Neither flight crew member was aware that a pry bar was standard emergency equipment on the aircraft. In the middle, pry out the housing with the soft-close mechanism using a flathead screwdriver. It may be helpful to use a standard screwdriver to gently pry removable terminals away from the receptacle on the plug-in modules. Others want to pry it out and have two votes, one on government funding and one on the Syria dough. Among them were the persistent efforts of a single congressman to pry out of the Pentagon the true costs of running Guantanamo. Andrew lifts the roof of the first house and his dad uses a small metal hook to pry the first wall of honeycombs out of the hive. These other benign interests are being used to pry open the door for all of these other uses. He clung to me, and I clung to him until the family had to pry us apart. The strange voice was beginning to get on her nerves talking in that matter-of-factly tone, and she tried even harder to bring herself to be able to pry her eyes open. Show More Sentences It took three men to pry me off and hold me down while they drew my blood. The hands moved from David's torso to his fists to pry them open. He had to force himself to let Jim take his hand and pry the fingers open. For several moments I tried desperately to pry my eyes open. I knocked lightly on the door, hoping to pry Angela out of the restroom. I do owe someone a rather lengthy post on Neil Gaiman and Sandman, so I suppose that will have to fulfill me until I can pry those long boxes open after the move. Managers for the candidates raced around the floor trying to pry delegates away from their opponents, and to keep those already on their side from defecting. Considering you would need a crowbar to pry them apart, it's true that food and wine in France share a special bond. Rutherford knew that alpha particles, which readily pierced the atom's cloud of electrons, didn't have enough energy to penetrate and pry apart the nucleus. The task can be made easier using a pry bar as a lever. In other restive provinces, such as Aceh and West Papua, soldiers still run amok, but only a handful of cases has ever come to trial. The government also seems loth to pry too deeply into military finances. Meanwhile, journalists who pry into such matters are silenced. Given that the pry bar was stronger than the crash axe, the pry bar may have been a more effective tool to use when, for example, the flight crew attempted to free the trapped hand of one of the passengers. Try to dislodge rocks with a pry bar and a pick. The census does not pry that far, but the Office for National Statistics announced on December 4th that it would begin quizzing people about their sexuality next year in six of its regular surveys. Turn the template upside down and with the tip of a razor blade, CAREFULLY pry up one corner of the adhesive backing on the triangle spot and peel away. But given my lapse of judgment with the pry bar, I didn't relax too much. The two governments do not send their investigative agencies to pry into the details of the prospective panelist's business and personal affiliations. You can't pry into matters when employees are dealing with that. You need a replacement tile and a small pry bar. Show More Sentences Do not help yourself to their paper clips or pry into their things. Buy from Amazon.co.uk RUTH WINSTONE'S job is to pry into people's diaries. The pry seems to have become less abundant now because the climate has turned against it, making it difficult for it to grow from seed. I'm not going to pry into your life, but I wish you'd tell me how you got to the South Carolina Lowcountry. That trip must be some kind of story. And though she was early taken in hand by a writerly intelligence, it was hardly in the power of the manual alphabet to pry out a writer who was not already there. When it is not blatantly pitched at children who can be expected to harry their parents into providing alluring gifts, Christmas advertising attempts to pry open pocket books through mawkish appeals to sentimentality. Shrewsbury police had a person in custody with two empty kegs and liquor bottles from the club, along with a pry bar and a hack saw. And a semiconductor trade agreement helped pry open the Japanese market. Yet Adams will likely pry open his wallet for Fisher. Its shape act like a pry bar to pull out tree stumps or rocks. The pry bar is located in the fire-fighting kit in the wardrobe unit. In checking for vertical motion of ball joints, keep in mind that the load carrying joint is unloaded when being tested, and that a pry bar pressure sufficient only to lift the weight of the wheel assembly is required. Knapp hopes she can pry open some of those doors for people. This density measurement is yet another of the secrets the ICE2001 scientists pry from the vast snow and ice domain of Mount Logan, and helps determine the mass balance of the glaciers and icefields. Or use an object that fits into the slot to gently pry out the adapter. Use a pry bar to remove the wood stop from the skid. They think about telling Meghan that just because she has a boyfriend she can still do things with other people but they don't want to pry and decide not to get involved in Meghan's business. Some of the unhurt soldiers frantically dug out the injured and dead from the wreckage, using their rifles to pry the twisted debris to get their comrades free. Then he picked up a stick and used it to pry her mouth open. The cut was probably made before charring, using a sharp tool to cut deep enough for the instrument to pry open one of the locules to get to one of three kernels. Show More Sentences It is hard to get purchase on a nail without a pry bar or hammer. The 'bumsicle', as the jaded hospital doctors called him, had been frozen to the sidewalk and it took him and his partner a real solid effort to pry him off. The shaft was fat, long and already half-hard. Ulrich didn't mean to pry, but he understood that this was a man who liked to play for hours before he came. Examples from Classical Literature He was reticent of his own business, however much he wanted to pry into mine. But pry open the hungry mouth with the plowshare, and the earth will drink greedily. As to Mrs. Betts's former history, no one had the smallest right to pry into it. Did I ever walk into your house to pry and rummage, and tell you that your things were no use? She consents on condition that they should not pry into her life, that they should not soil and besmirch her innermost being. We were going to pry open the Lobster's claws and use them for a corkscrew. He who pries into letters for one purpose, may be led to pry into them for another. You can take the top off a bottle of soda pop with an opener that will pry it up, but you cannot pull it off with your fingers. So he didn't pry into my pockets, but only felt outside with his hands, and said it was all right. I don't mean, my good girl, to pry into your family affairs. Operators were required to pry glass, at 400 degrees F, from a metal plate, and then manually scrape off epoxy from the metal. Gently he tried to pry their resisting hands away from hers. From Estella she looked at me, with a searching glance that seemed to pry into my heart and probe its wounds. It was in vain that Fortunato, uplifting his dull torch, endeavoured to pry into the depth of the recess. Danged if his back didn't freeze to the duck and it took all three of us to pry Rambo loose. It was not a matter for their comrades to pry into overmuch. With the front hanging out over the Rutledge milldam and the rear taking on water, Lincoln began straining every muscle to pry the boat over the dam. After all, what right had he to pry into the life of Dorian Gray? Find more words! 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What is the opposite of pry? Words that rhyme with pry What is the past tense of pry? What is the plural of pry? What is the adverb for pry? What is the noun for pry? Translations for pry Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words prussic prussiate Prussianism Prussian Prussia pruritus Pry pryer Pryer prying prying eyes prynne 3-letter Words Starting With p pr