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Example sentences for: pried

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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."
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.
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.