Words similar to pried

Example sentences for: pried

How can you use “pried” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

I informed him of my CD-ROM/sound card suspicions, and he pried open my computer's metal box and started gabbing about 40-pin connections.
Inspectors examining Ressam's rental car found the explosives concealed in the spare tire well, but at first they assumed the white powder and viscous liquid were drug-related-until an inspector pried apart and identified one of the four timing devices concealed within black boxes.
Land where the Pilgrims pried.
It would also reunite one-third of the old AT&T, since SBC already comprises two of the Baby Bells the government pried away from Ma Bell in 1984.
As Albert Mobilio writes in the Village Voice Literary Supplement , "the questions with which James Joyce and Flannery O'Connor pried at Catholic doctrine he now aims at Orthodox Judaism."