pry 的 2 个定义
pried, pry·ing.
- to inquire impertinently or unnecessarily into something: to pry into the personal affairs of others.
- to look closely or curiously; peer; peep.
plural pries.
- an impertinently inquisitive person.
- an act of prying.
pry 近义词
interfere in someone else's business
force or break open
更多pry例句
- In a small area, he explains, using a pry bar to leverage a heavy piece of material onto sections of rolling steel pipe can be a way to move it to a more open area.
- Escondido Police Chief Ed Varso said last week that Olson, armed with a metal pry bar, charged Moore, who backed away and gave warnings before opening fire.
- Harvest those carefully using a strong knife or small pry bar.
- Knapp hopes she can pry open some of those doors for people.
- Others want to pry it out and have two votes, one on government funding and one on the Syria dough.
- Among them were the persistent efforts of a single congressman to pry out of the Pentagon the true costs of running Guantanamo.
- Andrew lifts the roof of the first house and his dad uses a small metal hook to pry the first wall of honeycombs out of the hive.
- These other benign interests are being used to pry open the door for all of these other uses.
- Many a spy of the Kaiser had tried to pry there and had been arrested and sentenced to a long term of imprisonment.
- The banks do not pry into his moral character: they are satisfied that he meets his overdrafts and promissory notes punctually.
- So he didn't pry into my pockets, but only felt outside with his hands, and said it was all right.
- I hope I can pry Welborn loose from his digging and delving long enough to take me over that road again.
- Madame Fontaine is thought, by those who seek to pry into the future, to be wiser in her wisdom than Mademoiselle Lenormand.