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    1. This path went downhill, usually gently, often leveled with a log rail and fill in some spots, some rocks pried around in a few other spots


    2. " She pried her arms loose from his tight grip, "We had an accident


    3. Heather jogged over to one of the dead agents and pried the gun out of his


    4. She pried Becky from Joss’s arms, forcing him to relent his hold on her


    5. After a little time, however, I was able to convey the important purposes a watch can serve, and when I carefully pried off the back plate of one


    6. over the reasons before she heard bursting of balloons, the creak of metal being pried apart


    7. At least he wasn’t glaring threateningly at her as he had the last time she pried into his past


    8. The granary door was pried open and the wheat shovelled


    9. They pried the gun out of my hands


    10. Benny appeared out of the darkness and pried my hands

    11. With a small grunt of exertion, he pried open another window, listening intently


    12. He used his nail and pried a small bit out


    13. The uncountable many bits of information that have passed through the common sense of my intellect during all this time, and then stored as source material to aid in additional understandings, have been pried out of a portion of my memory that I had felt beyond recall until I began this work


    14. Again I had to be pried away to enter the next room


    15. “Aerith,” Cloud pried, his gaze reaching hers, “why are they after


    16. She pulled it out and pried it open


    17. His visiting lift companion bid the lad a cheerful good day, wondering if he might have pried a germ of thought into that modishly educated and expensively hooded head


    18. And those in charge also have plenty to fear as the vault of their hidden revolutionary intentions is pried open for all to see and understand its contents


    19. “What are you doing with all these guns,” Eke pried


    20. With a pounding heart I pried the fallen man’s knife from his hand

    21. My fingers quickly guided the point of the knife as I pried loose the bent wire staple and slipped it in my shirt pocket


    22. He gently pried it out, wiping off the


    23. He pried himself from the window and


    24. Batistuta nodded, and careful y pried the


    25. "What else has he bought you?" Sally pried


    26. “Come on!’” He pried open the door and climbed inside, but I stayed back


    27. “Barty, he’s killing me!” she feigns death, Oreo’s jaws pried open and placed around her throat


    28. Peter mustered up enough strength to push Cilus away, and then Peter took his two hands and pried the staff with the horns away from his neck


    29. And when he’d been quiet, filled to bursting with anger and fear for Resa, she hadn’t pried, she hadn’t tried to make him feel better


    30. That is why I have never pried

    31. He inserted a dagger point and pried


    32. Tiny beams of light streamed through the apertures in the wall, as he pried open the secret panel


    33. The Toucan was pried away and


    34. Slowly he pried the window


    35. With a large screwdriver he had kept up his sleeve, he pried them off


    36. Wendy sat beside her sister and gently pried Moses’ hands loose even as she joined in the prayer of mourning


    37. Saul latched on to Fiona and could not be pried loose


    38. may have a hole drilled into its skull or have its skull pried


    39. Lezura pried his hand away and rest her hand on the wound


    40. I leaped in between the two combatants then pried them

    41. the ice box had been pried open


    42. Zeke dug around the object and eventually pried it out of the hole


    43. With a snap of his wrist he pried the lid open


    44. Rubin pried loose the coffin lid, and helped by the others, lifted it away


    45. Carla skillfully pried into the relationship, but Amy was not forthcoming, she was used to keeping her affairs to herself


    46. carry in and pried the top open


    47. The worker pried the top of the crate open to reveal neatly wrapped bricks of cocaine


    48. There, another man put a hand on Buddy’s face, and shone a bright light in Buddy’s eyes, then he lifted Buddy’s ears and looked inside them, then he put his finders in Buddy’s mouth and pried his mouth open, and then he held Buddy’s tale up and put something cold in his butt


    49. Without saying a word the dissector pried Buddy’s eye out with the spoon


    50. He pried the paper out of his wife’s cold hand













































    1. Far from dreading the unknown, the protagonist delves into it, makes it his ally and describes what he sees and pries, touches and analyzes


    2. "As you well know, there are ministers who view with disdain the fact the CSIS exists at all, let alone operates an overseas intelligence network that pries information from countries with whom we have detente


    3. After a while, he kicks Wesley off the window seat and pries open his hiding place to get his pocket watch and check what time it is


    4. “Pry up the floorboards,” orders Volkheimer, but after Neumann Two pries up several and peers down, it’s clear that the only thing under the boards is decades-old horsehair for insulation


    5. A young woman pries open the door and steps out, crying and stumbling over her feet


    6. She whispers something to Dante as Clarence gently pries away her arms


    7. They held up blueprints and wielded hammers and pries and levers


    8. Into the gravest matters pries and peeps,


    1. I also think how easily it could be to just pry into her thoughts and get what I need


    2. Sooner or later he was going to move back to Blubor where he would have almost forty hours a week to pry at their crystal


    3. Nuran tried to pry at her hand, then swatted at it


    4. Oh heavens, I shouldn’t have said that - I don’t mean to pry


    5. “Harry, I have no wish to pry, and I understand completely if you do not wish to tell me


    6. not to pry too deeply


    7. He had to reply with his mind, being unable to pry his teeth from off of his tongue


    8. "For the mistress Nathalia, Galimoto would do anything," the imp managed to pry his eyes from her breasts


    9. "In order to have it, I would first have to pry it from the One Elf's grasp


    10. Then, with his dagger pressed against the door, the One Elf struggled to pry the boards from off the door

    11. I grabbed his neck to pull him back, but he took my hands to pry them away with a determined intensity


    12. They tried in vain to pry Zarko loose from holding her


    13. As always, Rebekah would pry until the truth was uncovered


    14. Instead it stoked his curiosity further, inciting him to pry all the more


    15. You don't pry into other peoples affairs


    16. Before Porge could pry more information from the ancient mariner, he crawled into his wooden box


    17. But you had to pry


    18. �Anything you could relate to your little sweetheart at this time, Steve?� she begged as she was trying to pry information out of him


    19. but it became clear that I needed something to pry


    20. to pry the hatch open and the bucket to hold the space for me

    21. Her fingers could find nothing to pry against and she experimented with a bite


    22. When Tlauquechol was finally able to pry me away from the statuary, he took us into the room on the right


    23. Good thing that half the hockey team was there to pry her off me


    24. Max would not pry on this dream because it was for her mind only


    25. I tried to pry more information out of him but father refused to tell me anything


    26. Somehow she knew that she ought not to pry


    27. I grab a chair and pry my way between them


    28. It was his manner more than anything; he seemed to pry into everything she did almost to obsession


    29. Swirling and mingling with the water turning it into red, making it impossible to pry apart the blood and the H2O


    30. They kept walking and found a man who was trying to pry his car off the ground with a crowbar because his wheels had been stolen

    31. I grabbed his hand on the back of my neck with mine, trying to pry his fingers, his touch off my form, but the manoeuvre only made Adrinius more persistent in his clutch


    32. He looked at me with curiosity, but didn't pry


    33. She always tried to pry out of me what she and I talked about


    34. It took a tow truck more than an hour to pry the vehicles apart


    35. I also had some frustrating moments with women in the California field offices during Maria’ most extended absence when I could not pry out of them information regarding which T&C’s we were using in a particular commercial matter


    36. She shook her head; she had no right to pry, especially since he had asked her not to


    37. I’m told that they needed to peel and pry his burned hand away from the hilt of his sword before they could begin treating it, and that his only response to this was a sharp intake of breath


    38. Venn sat on the rear-deck, surrounded by piles of outlandish treasure, using a chisel to pry gems out of stolen items


    39. Solmund’s arms and started to pry the slate from his grip, “Come


    40. blasts she used to pry it open

    41. ” When I had the tool, it was easy to pry the end of the cable


    42. Maybe I could pry the screen loose with my fingernails


    43. grasped the barrel of the gun and tried to pry it away from


    44. "Carl's got a burr under his saddle and he wants me to pry it out for him


    45. Some children, even at four, have mastered the basics: they were able to read a social situation as one where delay was beneficial, to pry their attention from focusing on the temptation at hand, and to distract themselves while maintaining the necessary perseverance toward their goal - the two marshmallows


    46. pry them out of Poes-Woes’ mouth


    47. Grab here while I use the pry bar to loosen it a bit on this side


    48. “What animal is orange, big enough to climb up the wall without leaving tracks, pry open Regina’s window, and leave as quickly as it came?” Grandpa asked


    49. Could it be that there’s no such thing as death, or that death not what we imagine it to be? Use that as a lever to pry yourself in a little deeper


    50. I’d better be careful of my emotions; it was like little trolls were trying to pry open boxes that I had buried away











































    1. Spies were always sniffing around, spying and prying and trying to break in


    2. "Your duty is to keep us safe from other prying eyes and ears


    3. I think she must have been aware of my prying but she didn't seem to mind


    4. Newspapers covered its windows to stop the prying eyes


    5. any prying eyes to the truth


    6. But he hid there when he could live nowhere else because the nymphs of the rocks protected him from prying eyes


    7. They spent another week prying open the instrument schematics that had been transmitted from home with that quantum mechanics text


    8. “I want to be rid of our trackers and able to move about without their prying eyes on us


    9. It keeps prying eyes at bay, but not prying ears


    10. the hood up so that she was hidden from prying

    11. Alex needs somewhere quiet, away from prying eyes and ears, where he can manage the situation


    12. “And as long as your not offended by my prying, what prompted that field for your consideration?” Harry became more and more fascinated by his new friend


    13. Never moving about freely, and always avoiding the prying eyes of the town’s people


    14. be safe from prying eyes, and it offered sanctuary from


    15. " she pushed back his prying hand and sat up


    16. "Whimly, stop," she whispered, prying her hands from off of her ears and reaching out for him


    17. prying my way into the heart of a cantankerous person


    18. shouldn’t have made it past the maze…” Jacob said nothing, prying the gun out of the corpse’s dry


    19. “That thought terrifies me,” says my husband, prying open folds of fat to clean between them


    20. ” She crouched before him, checking his bandages as he sat in a shadowy corner of the prison yard, away from prying eyes

    21. Someone had to ensure the cellar was kept clear of prying eyes during the long night so the soldiers were not alerted until it was too late


    22. Prying back the top, her mania instantly ceased


    23. Former SEAL and panther shifter Chay “Beane” Bane has made a career of rescuing other shifters in difficult situations, secreting them in his vast compound far from the prying eyes of the government


    24. Kept hidden from prying eyes, this was the place where the enemies of the state, the sinners and the ones who were considered dangerous, unruly, and frivolous with the La were brought to be chastised and enlightened


    25. He was by now prying out the piece with a screwdriver, perched on the right wingtip, over a vast black void filled with nameless stars


    26. I will return with you to your truck and then show you where it might be kept safely, away from prying eyes


    27. He kept it a secret from the prying hands of many, because if it leaked into the modern world as he knew it, the fate of mankind would be changed


    28. We drove for a good twenty minutes and we were now away from any possible prying eyes


    29. prying fingers towards the very location that had captured the


    30. eventually pressing a prying ear to the ancient door

    31. Maggie knew that she was prying, but another question came almost without her bidding it


    32. As Mallika left her body, she heard her name prying her back


    33. The fact that she was prying my man’s attention away from me wouldn’t have hurt me as much, had Brandon not allowed her to do it


    34. I saved his number as Knight in case of prying eyes


    35. Nyla had started working at prying open the small, high


    36. In this isolated spot there was no need to close them against prying eyes


    37. There was something in the power of the water that kept prying eyes away


    38. As we all expected the general populace could not help but ask more prying questions


    39. prying through the items


    40. She entered the house and went to her bedroom, where she felt safe from prying eyes that might see her confusion and embarrassment about the state of her emotions

    41. She felt stronger when she was not looking into Kerim's prying eyes


    42. adjacent room where the prying eyes of Brandon Steele and his


    43. Bracken took another sip of the green liquid as he tried to avoid the prying look of the Primagnon before him


    44. One woman stopped and chose to introduce herself while prying into his identity and relationship with Biscoe


    45. Tamar had explained to him on a subsequent dream visit that as long as he wore the dragon’s tooth amulet its magic would keep him hidden from all prying eyes, and if local spies had not revealed his new command, he stood a chance that the enemy may not know of his presence here


    46. She later apologised for her prying


    47. After a quick lunch he started in on the storm windows, removing cracked panes, prying out the glazing points, softening old putty with a heat gun while chipping away


    48. home, away from prying eyes, she’d have our heads for causing trouble


    49. There were other girls who were kept in separate wards of the hospital, hidden from prying eyes, who were involuntary participants in Jacob's schemes


    50. It seemed that this island was indeed an oasis where people could stay out of sight of the prying eyes of the law













































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    Synonyms for "pry"

    crowbar pry pry bar wrecking bar jimmy lever prise prize horn in intrude nose poke peep search spy seek reconnoitre inquire push lift pull move tilt

    "pry" definitions

    a heavy iron lever with one end forged into a wedge


    to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open


    be nosey


    search or inquire in a meddlesome way


    make an uninvited or presumptuous inquiry