pry / praɪ /

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pry2 个定义

v. 无主动词 verb

pried, pry·ing.

  1. to inquire impertinently or unnecessarily into something: to pry into the personal affairs of others.
  2. to look closely or curiously; peer; peep.
n. 名词 noun

plural pries.

  1. an impertinently inquisitive person.
  2. an act of prying.

pry 近义词

v. 动词 verb

interfere in someone else's business

v. 动词 verb

force or break open

更多pry例句

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Harvest those carefully using a strong knife or small pry bar.
  4. Knapp hopes she can pry open some of those doors for people.
  5. Others want to pry it out and have two votes, one on government funding and one on the Syria dough.
  6. Among them were the persistent efforts of a single congressman to pry out of the Pentagon the true costs of running Guantanamo.
  7. 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.
  8. These other benign interests are being used to pry open the door for all of these other uses.
  9. Many a spy of the Kaiser had tried to pry there and had been arrested and sentenced to a long term of imprisonment.
  10. The banks do not pry into his moral character: they are satisfied that he meets his overdrafts and promissory notes punctually.
  11. So he didn't pry into my pockets, but only felt outside with his hands, and said it was all right.
  12. I hope I can pry Welborn loose from his digging and delving long enough to take me over that road again.
  13. Madame Fontaine is thought, by those who seek to pry into the future, to be wiser in her wisdom than Mademoiselle Lenormand.