Sentence examples for pry under from inspiring English sources

Using your fingers, or perhaps scissors (to pry under the staple), pull the staples out.

Make sure to pry under the weather stripping and only pry enough to insert the wire through.

Use a folded magazine page to pry under the gum when trying to lift it off; it's stronger than paper towel or newspaper.

If there's not enough stem to grab onto, use a butter knife or a regular table knife (something that's dull) to pry under the lid and pull it up.

Once-secret FBI files pried loose under the Freedom of Information Act show that a jealous, paranoid Hoover orchestrated a secret campaign against the series, which originally ran from 1959 to 1963.

There's a truth in that, a persuasive and seductive sense of appeal to the idea that one can slip into the silent night and be born again, away from prying eyes, under the lights of street lamps and mirror balls.

If the battery is held with a spring clip, pry the battery from under the clip with a small flat-bladed screwdriver.

Or even anything like as big – they were so quiet about the fact they were together that when Everything But the Girl had their mid-90s resurgence, even asking whether or not they were a couple would have been filed under "rude to pry".

He also deals with thieves who, under cover of darkness, pry off bronze bowls and brass valves to sell for scrap.

To remove the snap ring insert a flat-head screwdriver under the ring to pry it open and off the flange.

It is Michael Jackson who is under the microscope as we pry, one more time, through his home, his medical records, his body.