Example sentences for: pry

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

  • 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?

  • 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.

  • 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?)

  • PCR amplification was performed using primers Pry1 (CCTTAGCATGTCCGTGGGGTTTGAAT) and IR (CGGGACCACCTTATGTTATTTCATCATG) located in the 3' P end.

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


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