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• It is hard to get purchase on a nail without a pry bar or hammer.From the entry purchase
• A crowbar uses leverage to pry nails out of wood.From the entry leverage
• I won't have the government instituting gun control! They can have my shotgun when they pry it from my cold, dead hands.From the entry from my cold, dead hands
• Using the blunt end of one of the vibraphone mallets, he pried open her folds.2014, Karyn Gerrard, Irene Preston, Lotchie Burton, et al: Summer Heat: 10 Spicy Romances That Sizzle. From the entry kernel
• The blue octopoid made no protest as Denise pried open the disk.2013, Don Webb, The War with the Belatrin, Wildside Press LLC, →ISBN, page 40. From the entry octopoid
• But before he could pry the rock out of the slope, he felt Stave coming toward him.2013, Stephen R. Donaldson, The Last Dark, Penguin, →ISBN, page 171. From the entry stonelore
• “Far be it from me to pry into Chief Engineer Ond's geek-some plans,” said Craigor easily.2009, Rudy Rucker, Postsingular. From the entry geeksome
• If necessary, cut the old saddle in two using a reciprocating saw, then pry out the saddle.2008 September 1, Editors of Creative Publishing, Black & Decker The Complete Photo Guide to Home Repair: with 350 Projects and 2000…. From the entry saddle
• His expression slack, Green Spider methodically pried out another clod and swallowed it.1995, Kathleen O'Neal Gear, W. Michael Gear, People of the Lakes, Macmillan, →ISBN. From the entry cannibal
• "I say, I did not intend to pry into personals, really," he protested.1909, Edwin Balmer, Waylaid by Wireless: A Suspicion, a Warning, a Sporting Proposition, and a Transatlantic Pursuit, page 113. From the entry personals
• From what I've been able to pry out of her the fancy house customers weren't allowed to hit.2013, Nevada Barr, Burn, →ISBN. From the entry fancy house
• It was an adaptation of the good cop-bad cop game the police often use when trying to pry confessions from suspects.2010, Peter Golenbock, Dynasty: The New York Yankees, 1949-1964, Courier Corporation, →ISBN, page 493. From the entry good cop-bad cop
• They cracked heads, used Roland’s knife (its edge now dull) to pry open skulls, and removed the brains of their kill.2004, Stephen King, “Hides”, in The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower, New York: Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 796. From the entry debrain
• Like young monkeys, apes, or humans, they poked and pried inquisitively at anything that seemed pokable or priable.1992, Thomas A. Easton, Woodsman, page 90. From the entry pokable
• Pry marks on the doorjamb, so I buy it.1990 June, James Ellroy, L.A. Confidential, New York, N.Y.: The Mysterious Press, →ISBN, page 228. From the entry tap
• The more you want to be let alone, the more the curious and the nosy pry, peek and intrude.1967, Christian Herald, volume 90, page 19. From the entry peeping tomism
• So our Tom Reilly schemed darkly and came up with the attack which pried apart the Brown Bowlers.1964, Stanley Woodward, Paper Tiger: An Old Sportswriter's Reminiscences of People, Newspapers, War and Work, chapter 3, page 33 of the…. From the entry darkly
• But the fierce convention of courtesy pries open Rabbit's lips.1960, John Updike, 'Rabbit, Run', page 108. From the entry courtesy
• Resentment showed in his face, greeny-brown and wrinkled like a baked apple,—resentment that white folks should pry into matters wholly Indian.1941, Emily Carr, chapter 6, in Klee Wyck. From the entry greeny
• They were sooty and smarting as she used them to pry the garment off the woman's slack shoulders, and threw it over her own.2023 October 12, HarryBlank, “Fire in the Hole”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 22 May 2024. From the entry smart
• I'm not going to pry into your life, but I wish you'd tell me how you got to the South Carolina Lowcountry.1998, Anne Rivers Siddons, Low Country, New York: Harper Collins. From the entry some kind of
• The limit of death that is so fascinatedly and prettily witnessed in the sentimental deathbed scene is here pried open and distended.1995, Shawn Rosenheim, Stephen Rachman, The American Face of Edgar Allan Poe, page 116. From the entry fascinatedly
• There's a difference in the die-breaks, Or change made in the die, That leads the numismatic mind To quander and to pry.1933, “A Coin”, in The Numismatist, volume 46, page 799. From the entry quander
• Basically, you can pry my TERF bangs from my cold, dead forehead—unless you tell me they’re actively doing harm, in which case I guess it’s headbands for a while.2019, Anonymous, quoted in Danny M. Lavery, "Help! My Stepfather Told Me He Had a Sex Dream About Me.", Slate, 6 August 2019. From the entry terf bangs
• If Anita Bryantt really wants to devastate gay liberation, she should pry her fingers from her Bible long enough to thumb through the printed gay media.1977 April 30, Hugh Crell, “Unproductive Onslaughts”, in Gay Community News, page 4. From the entry autogenocide
• 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.2003 September 30, laurelc [username], “[atxc-pi] NEW: Popsicle toes (1/1)”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet). From the entry bumsicle

Meaning of pry

1. verb To peer closely and curiously, especially at something closed or not public.
2. verb To inquire into something that does not concern one; to be nosy; to snoop.
3. verb To peer at (something) closely; also, to look into (a matter, etc.) thoroughly.

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How do you use pry in a sentence?

Pry is used as a verb and noun. For example: “I don't mean to pry, but could you tell me where you got that scarf?”

What is a short sentence with pry?

“to pry into someone's affairs”

What does pry mean?

Pry means to peer closely and curiously, especially at something closed or not public.