pry

Object

• eye: Two women living alone fall prey to the prying eyes of a lone young man.
• finger: The wrap is strong enough to defy any little prying fingers!
• hand: Keep your valuable gear safe from prying hands or exploding zipper's.
• sibling: Children like having a place to keep their private belongings safe from prying siblings too - particularly in shared bedrooms.
• lens: Shortly we were all moved outside again with all four cars lined up facing the building, this time away from any prying lens.
• information: I'm sure that there are many other tricks and means for prying information out of an obscure file.

Preposition: into

• people: It could be used to spy on citizens, to pry into people 's personal lives and to control ' troublesome ' protesters.
• secret: I'm sure I have no wish to pry into the secrets of this young man or yourself.
• matter: A desire to know and pry into such matters brings forth no fruit.

Modifies a noun

bar: At the opposite end to the head a pry bar which can be used to lever wayward boards into place.

Modifying Another Word

• loose: I could spend my whole life prying loose the secrets of the insane.
• carefully: Using the small flat head screw driver, carefully pry the connector off starting on the sit without the bare pins exposed.
• not: They may ask you about your hobbies don't worry - they are not prying!
• n't: Show an interest in what your teenager is doing at school and out of school but do n't pry into their personal lives.
• gently: With a flat blade screwdriver this can be gently pried out.

Followed by an intransitive particle

• open: I was told to open my legs, I couldn't, there came the knife and my legs were pried open.
• up: Push the fork into the ground using your foot and pry up to loosen the layer.

Followed by a transitive particle

• open: He tries to pry open the doors, pushes the button, then starts running down the stairs.
• off: The lug wrench often has a flat end, which you can use to pry off the cover.
• up: You simply pry up the crater from all sides and work the surface grass toward the center of the crater.