Words similar to pry

Example sentences for: pry

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

“He's pry not home, but you cask his sister.”
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.
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.
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?)
If you favor opening foreign markets, the question forces you to oppose trade restrictions--even though the best argument for trade restrictions is that they're necessary to pry open foreign markets.