Sentence examples for be able to pry from inspiring English sources

She borrows Hadley's slippers, merrily saying, "You won't be able to pry them off me".

I figured I might be able to pry open the glove compartment.

IT'S easy to tell when clams and oysters are fresh -- their shells are tightly closed, and you will not be able to pry them open with your fingers.

One Pakistani security analyst said Bin Laden might have moved to the unlikely hiding place, only about 35 miles from Islamabad, because foreign spies would have been unlikely to be able to pry in a town with high-level military installations.

Before his trip, he had asked if there was anything he could do for me in Paris, and I had asked if he knew someone — a graduate student maybe — who might be able to pry loose from the authorities a copy of the transcript of Bernard Faÿ's trial.

Hopefully the Auctomatic founders, who must leave Silicon Valley and move to Vancouver as part of the transaction, will be able to pry themselves loose at some point in the future and start another company.

I haven't been able to pry it away from her since.

Even after regulators forced it to yield some of the matches a few years ago, rivals were able to pry away only a small share of the games.

At the time, however, Ms. Simmons was under contract to the British producer J. Arthur Rank, so Olivier interviewed dozens of other actresses before he was able to pry Ms. Simmons loose for 30 days of shooting.

Those last three words hide more than they reveal; I was able to pry nothing more specific from Mr. Clements than the fact that there are chilies and cloves in the mix and one "secret ingredient" as well.

When the helmet was tightly closed it created an air lock; Dali began to suffocate and would have died if Roland and a friend had not been able to pry it open with a billiard cue.