pry

EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB

Harvest those carefully using a strong knife or small pry bar.

Many a spy of the Kaiser had tried to pry there and had been arrested and sentenced to a long term of imprisonment.

The banks do not pry into his moral character: they are satisfied that he meets his overdrafts and promissory notes punctually.

So he didn't pry into my pockets, but only felt outside with his hands, and said it was all right.

I hope I can pry Welborn loose from his digging and delving long enough to take me over that road again.

Madame Fontaine is thought, by those who seek to pry into the future, to be wiser in her wisdom than Mademoiselle Lenormand.

Twas inevitable that they should pry and surmise––surmising much more than they dared pry.

I felt I had no right to pry into their afflictions, and retired.

LAVENGROGEORGE BORROW

If we only had a big pry here, we might heave up this top rock, and so get at him.

LEFT ON LABRADORCHARLES ASBURY STEPHENS

It was one of those gloomy days with Pierre when we pry into every corner of our souls and shake out every crease.

APRIL 18, 2021

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