verb
definition
To look where one is not welcome; to be nosy.
definition
To keep asking about something that does not concern one.
definition
To look closely and curiously at (something closed or not public).
verb
definition
To use leverage to open or widen.
synonyms
Examples of pried in a Sentence
He pried the notes from her hand.
Someone careened into her as she pried her cell from her pocket.
She waited for him to say something about all that Andre had pried out of her.
Gabe pried the knife free and tossed it on the bed, reading the message.
His strong fingers pried the whip from her hand and he tossed it away.
She felt him assess her before he pried her hand free and rested his there, sealing the wound.
She continued to hold him about the neck until he slowly pried her arm away and pushed himself to a half-sitting position, her leg still tightly locked over him.
He pried her fingers away, glancing up at her when she gasped in pain.
Toby cried in shock and pried her away.
First and foremost, they are designed to catch you up on any programming you may have missed due to work, vacation, or anything else that pried you away from your favorite dramatic excitement.
His promise pried his attention from her.
He pried the information from her mind.
A sort of symbolic retaliation was the punishment of the offending member, seen in the cutting off the hand that struck a father or stole a trust; in cutting off the breast of a wet-nurse who substituted a changeling for the child entrusted to her; in the loss of the tongue that denied father or mother (in the Elamite contracts the same penalty was inflicted for perjury); in the loss of the eye that pried into forbidden secrets.
She pried glass free with shaking hands between sobs, then set her foot down and did the same for the other.
He pried the sword from her clamped hand.
Jenn placed the blade of a knife between her teeth and pried the window of her bathroom open.
Her heavy boots trampled one of his feet, and he pried his from beneath hers.
She pried away from Jessi, who didn't want to let her go.
She cried out, and the other three pried him off.
Taran wrestled the barrel out and pried its top open.
Jenn resisted him, and he pried harder.
Pried it out, same as you.