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Example sentences for: pry

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His self-effacing devotion to his art, and especially to landscape, helped to pry open the jaws of academic convention.
Its opening lines attempt to pry the beauty of the Antilles loose from advertising brochures, that false paradise in which, as Walcott wrote in his Nobel lecture, "the Caribbean is a blue pool into which the republic dangles the extended foot of Florida":
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.
The scene in which Dr. Sloper pays a visit to the young suitor's sister--to pry from her a confirmation of his suspicions about her brother's character--no longer climaxes with the woman's expulsive warning to keep Catherine from marrying him.
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?)