verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
off
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He pried off his shoes; loosened his collar; slumped in his seat like an opium smoker.
■ VERB
want
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Was that why you wanted to pry into my private life?
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He had had enough experience of strangers probing his own hurts without wanting to pry into those of others.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Anna is a private person, and I did not want to pry .
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Employers shouldn't try to pry into what a person does in the privacy of their own home.
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My son hasn't given us a reason for his divorce, and we don't want to pry .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But those glimmering eyes can also be prying, even sinister.
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Collymore heaved himself into the boat and slapped the boy until his senses returned, prying the club from his mortal grip.
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Her head throbbed, but she ignored it as she probed and pried.
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I didn't mean to pry .
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Maury Maverick managed to pry out of the Pentagon the religious affiliations of the 220 who died that day in Beirut.
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Now, say two physicists at Johns Hopkins University, the secret behind this sticky mystery has been pried loose.
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That is their secret, and will remain so; it behoves us not to pry , only to speculate in passing.
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The picture had been pried from each one.