PRY in a Sentence

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25 example sentences for PRY, such as:

1. I do not want to pry into other men's concerns.
2. I'm sorry I was rude but you deserved it for prying.
3. I don't want to pry , but I need to ask you one or two questions.
4. Couldn't find any keys, they tried to use an iron bar to pry the lock.
5. But he had his mother's genius for trusting, her disdain for prying, her sure integrity.

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 Meanings and Examples of PRY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
pry
 v.  move or force to get something open; make an uninvited inquiry
Classic Sentence: (21 in 2 pages)
1  I do not want to pry into other men's concerns.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 13
2  From Estella she looked at me, with a searching glance that seemed to pry into my heart and probe its wounds.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXVIII
3  So he didn't pry into my pockets, but only felt outside with his hands, and said it was all right.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII.
4  Cranly interrupted himself for an instant, and then said: I don't want to pry into your family affairs.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
5  They pried off the lid with their shovels, got out the body and dumped it rudely on the ground.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
6  So Tom pried his mouth open and poured down the Pain-killer.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
7  She did not see that Rhett had pried open the prison of her widowhood and set her free to queen it over unmarried girls when her days as a belle should have been long past.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
8  He pried her fist open inexorably and stared at it, picked up her other hand and held them both together silently, looking down at them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
9  Fauchelevent, hardly able to draw his breath for trembling, seized his cold chisel and his hammer, and pried up the coffin lid.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VII—IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE ORIGIN OF THE SAYI...
10  A part of every day she spent at the mill, prying into everything, doing her best to check the thievery she felt sure was going on.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
11  I'm sorry I was rude but you deserved it for prying.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
12  After luncheon, when Grace Stepney's prying eyes had been removed, Lily asked for a word with her aunt.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 15
13  But he had his mother's genius for trusting, her disdain for prying, her sure integrity.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
14  She could rebel against the town's prying now that she had something, however indistinct, for which to rebel.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
15  At intervals, he ran close up to the revolving border of the confusion, and prying into the heart of it with his pike, sought to prick out the object of his resentment.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
Example Sentence:
1  A lever is a bar, with which you can pry or lift greater weights or apply greater force.
2  Couldn't find any keys, they tried to use an iron bar to pry the lock.
3  I don't want to pry , but I need to ask you one or two questions.
4  A gust of wind pried loose a section of sheet-metal roofing.