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Example sentences for "pried"

Lexicographically close words:
pridem; prides; pridie; priding; prie; prier; priere; prieres; pries; priest
  1. He pried back the lugs holding the cover in place with the screwdriver from his belt kit.

  2. And Billy took him by the foot and pried a leg loose--and ripped at it with all his might; and again he failed.

  3. I couldn't help saying as I pried up the Pilot's index finger and started on the next.

  4. The second had I judged a thousand or more of the inch cubes such as I'd pried out of the Pilot's hand, all neatly stacked in a cubical box inside the soft outer bag.

  5. Bob came behind the Indian, grasped him by the chin, and with his knee in the small of the Cahuilla's back as a fulcrum, gently pried him away from his victim and held him fast.

  6. With the point of his pocket knife the Desert Rat pried loose one of these sections of lava.

  7. It was hard work, for many large stones were encountered frozen into their places, and these could only be pried loose at risk of a bent pick.

  8. A queer advertisement coming into the city room late at night was always pried into, as he knew from experience.

  9. Carefully Hawksley pried loose his derby and handed it to Kitty.

  10. He had the cook's mouth pried open in determined endeavor to ram what looked like half a chicken down the Visayan's gullet.

  11. He stepped over in the well curb, and, without looking back, disappeared through a hole in the side of it where he had pried off some of the boards.

  12. I found that the Indian had pried open the back door with a crowbar from among the blacksmith's tools.

  13. He pried at it with the toe of his shoe, and then lifted it with much effort out of the way.

  14. Three times Sliver and Jake locked and rolled on the floor, tearing like tigers at each other's throats, nor let go till pried apart by Bull.

  15. After Lee and Gordon disappeared, using his rifle barrel for a lever, Bull pried loose and rolled to the plateau edge over a dozen of the largest.

  16. Crossing the room, Jake pried off the lids, then, while the agent watched him with fearful eyes, he carried and piled the boxes in a solid block close to the table.

  17. Underneath and around them the floor, walls, and ceiling of the room moved as if they had been pried from their setting of ice and were being rolled about by the exploring thumb and forefinger of some impatient giant.

  18. And after the doctors had poked and pried he was faced by a series of other tests no one bothered to explain.

  19. Soon he had pried off a number of the planks, which we used for a flooring to our tent.

  20. Then he pried his jaws apart, holding them open with a piece of wood wedged in between the teeth.

  21. The eye of one of these was pried open, linked through the other and then closed again.

  22. I should like to know," queried Roger as they pulled and pried at the queer twisted roots, "why they call this Solomon's Seal.

  23. He dug and pried and washed the scanty soil until he was sure that no more was there, and then toward evening of the next day started home to the Abbey.

  24. Yes," she laughed, "I pried them out with a pair of scissors.

  25. She interrupted their tete a tetes, beset them in their walks, watched their most insignificant looks, pried into their most common-place messages, and dexterously hinted to the one whatever foible she could see or imagine in the other.

  26. The mountain shook and groans and hisses were heard in the air as he pried up the stone that lay across the pit-mouth.

  27. It was to save the body of Polan from such a fate, after the fight on Sebago Lake in 1756, that his brothers placed it under the root of a sturdy young beech that they had pried out of the ground.

  28. You come from homes where there is no shadow, no dark corner which must not be pried into.

  29. So Tom pried his mouth open and poured down the Pain-killer.

  30. They pried off the lid with their shovels, got out the body and dumped it rudely on the ground.

  31. The work of undoing the great twist of logs was exciting, and they fell on each other with a great sound as they were pried off, and went sliding, grinding, into the water.

  32. Ridley pried up the floor, and we found good things.

  33. Tres bien, we trailed through the long grass, pried open the shutters and door, and went in.

  34. The Committee felt that enough good men were still in Philadelphia and the vicinity, if they could be pried loose from their business and home anchorages, and that it was rather a question of incessant work than an impossible task.

  35. Then I remembered the hatch that had been pried off when the natives were ranging over the boat.

  36. I worked the pole into the space between the inner and outer planking while the man from Boston blinked at me angrily, and fished about with it until I discovered and pried within reach two more leather bags.

  37. That is, they went everywhere that they could, so far as open doors, or doors that could be pried open, let them.

  38. But when the door is pried open, or coaxed open enough for some sound or sight of Jesus to get in, they passionately cry out, "This is what I need.

  39. You were not always sure, not always set To hiding night or tuning "symphonies"; Had not one style from birth, but tried and pried And stretched and tampered with the media.

  40. You also, our first great, Had tried all ways; Tested and pried and worked in many fashions, And this much gives me heart to play the game.

  41. He had dogged the party, at the earnest request of Dame Webber and her daughter, who, with the laudable curiosity of their sex, had pried into the secret consultations of Wolfert and the doctor.

  42. Curses, blows, even a dagger pried betwixt her lips—all bootless.

  43. He drew his dagger and pried the wrapper open without breaking the seals or tearing the papyrus.

  44. In the vault below were seen the four coffins containing the several bodies of the royal dead, the leaden covering to one of which had been pried off by French bayonets in search of treasures supposed to have been buried with the body.

  45. In the tomb of Ferdinand and Isabella, at Granada, it will be remembered they pried open the royal coffins in search of treasure.


  46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pried" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.