Sentence examples for the pry from inspiring English sources
verb
To look where one is not welcome; to be nosey.
Move the pry tool around the screen, popping each clip open with a prying motion as you cross it.
But given my lapse of judgment with the pry bar, I didn't relax too much.
The representative of the group that commands authority in this little world is the "Pry Mincer".
I needed 15 minutes to hammer back the protruding gutter nails and another 20 minutes to seal the shingles I had torn with the pry bar.
The government, for instance, might be referred to as "the Pry Mincer"; "plomercy" is diplomacy; "Ardship of Cambry" is the Archbishop of Canterbury; and, more vividly, atomic energy becomes "Littl Shynin Man the Addom".
When other firefighters returned a day later to the remains of the Marriott, they found the power saws, the pry bars, all the tools that had been used against the rubble.
As the tale has turned and twisted since, the pry-masters have insisted that the innocent have nothing to fear, and that everything is done with rigorous checks.
The pries sent on Manderville's papers.
The Doubleday company eschewed publicity and the prying of journalists.
Yet even then, Mrs. Grossman said, the prying continued.
A young single mother, disturbed by the prying paparazzi.
