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.”


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