Words similar to pry

Example sentences for: pry

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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.
Annan has been trying to pry the cash out of Washington since he took office.
His self-effacing devotion to his art, and especially to landscape, helped to pry open the jaws of academic convention.
It is too cynical to foresee that some irreverent smarty-pants will one day pry and dig and garner further items of unintentional humor out of our supreme poet's writings?