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Example sentences for: prying

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"I'm here to enjoy a lobster dinner, away from the prying eyes of certain pushy rabbis who ...
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But though he amply covers the higher-stakes political events, he never allows them to eclipse his larger story: farmers and teachers, sharecroppers and dentists, prying their freedom loose from the grip of segregationist whites--and in so doing stripping away the racist restrictions that had always made the achievements of American democracy ring hollow.
“The Met Office--a part of the Ministry of Defence and therefore shielded from accountability and the prying eyes of outsiders--is beyond the pail.”
Apparently the Globe subscribes to the theory that incessant posthumous prying ("They hadn't slept together for 12 months" screamed one recent John-and-Carolyn cover) is just the thing for those trying to rest in peace.