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Example sentences for: prying

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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.”
Is your data being read by prying eyes?
"I'm here to enjoy a lobster dinner, away from the prying eyes of certain pushy rabbis who ...
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.