pried

Within was found another case, which was pried open with the point of the general's bowie-knife.

He pried open clutching fingers, seized a twisted silver instrument, and raised it to his lips.

By the time they had pried off the first few boards it was time to surface.

The dead man had apparently not been touched after the crime, but the drawer had been pried open and the money taken.

"He jumped the gate, and shoved his nose in the crack of the door and pried it open," said Sammy.

A minute later he had pried up the cover, had quite removed it, and had set it on the floor.

He hated people who pried into his novelist consciousness, all the more so that he couldn't in the least explain its contents.

I pried it out of Bob Stein that it was just maneuvers, as he called it.

And after he'd wrassled and hollered and pried, He'd let up and tackle the stuff 'twas inside.

With an iron bar, Peterson pried off the lock which had been put on the door of the brig, and drew back the bolt.