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Example sentences for: pry

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But, the papers note, it was used successfully by Watergate special prosecutor Leon Jaworksi to pry Nixon's Oval Office tapes from of his hands.
His self-effacing devotion to his art, and especially to landscape, helped to pry open the jaws of academic convention.
Some even maintain that the credit is an exercise in liberal social engineering, intended to pry women away from their children and into the workplace.
These appear to be unopenable, with no locks to undo or even hinges to pry open; but press a couple of panels here, slide a couple of sections there, and you’re in.
While the critique echoes conservative complaints about multiculturalism (harassment law makes women helpless victims), it also incorporates a libertarian strain (government should not pry into consensual sexual relations) and an Epicurean one (we shouldn't penalize people with active libidos; so long as nobody gets hurt--or helped--who cares?)