How to Use "pry" with Example Sentences

1. During a recent match he tried , unsuccessfully , to pry loose the concrete bleachers .

2. And its door that advertisers have been trying to pry through for the past 200 years at least .

3. When the entire area is shattered , drive the jackhammer in at an angle and pry up to loosen the first few pieces of flooring .

4. The continued u.s. military presence in japan has been a growing concern for the japanese public , and last week it became a lever to pry prime minister yukio hatoyama from office .

5. Nick , who had helped his parents remodel their home , organized volunteers to wire-brush soot from the stone fireplace , scrub 75 years of grime off the wood floors , and pry hundreds of staples from the pine walls .