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Example sentences for: pry

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

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.
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.
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.
“He's pry not home, but you cask his sister.”