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Example sentences for: pry

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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":
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Annan has been trying to pry the cash out of Washington since he took office.
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.
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.