Sentence examples for long pry from inspiring English sources
As he reached up for a fourth attempt, a long pry bar appeared in the window.
Lots of desperate people attacked the ice with hammers, chisels and (O.K., I'll admit it) six-foot-long pry bars, without realizing the kind of damage they were inflicting on the roof.
She paused only long enough to pry the shoes from the wasted horses, re-shod her own wagon horses, and journey on," he wrote.
His mother ran to the house being built across the street, and workmen came with a long two-by-four and pried him free.
"I turned that diamond down," Mr. Wynn allows, before asking if I've toyed with his bauble long enough and prying it from my hands.
Martin loved the long, hot days prying fossils from the carbonate formations under the watchful eye of Wooster geology professor Mark Wilson, who has analyzed a well-dated erosion surface in the Bahamas from the same period.
I stopped prying long ago.
ISIS finds itself in a meat grinder as U.S.-backed Iraqi forces continue their months-long offensive to pry Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city, from the grip of ISIS.
You get the feeling someone is going to have to pry that long putter out of his hands when the ban goes into effect next season.
But once the partying is done, and the long lenses start to pry, where do the well-heeled turn for privacy and respite?
At low tide on a recent afternoon, several aboriginal women walked across the jagged volcanic rocks below the nuclear waste dump's sea wall, occasionally stopping and using long metal spikes to pry crabs from their holes.
