prying outの例文
- Women stoop in the fields, hoes working the tan, sandy soil, fingers prying out offending stones.
- It's also great for making deep holes in the garden to transplant leggy tomato seedlings and for prying out tough weeds like dock and pokeweed.
- "That organization has been effective in prying out what should be public information and getting it into the public domain, " he said.
- They begin to dismantle sections of the Parthenon, prying out the 2, 300-year-old lead clamps and melting them down for bullets.
- Posing as a reporter is an ideal cover for a spy, since both jobs require traveling to out-of-the-way places and prying out secrets.
- As the pistol lacks a shell extractor, relying instead on blowback pressure to clear the shells, misfires are removed manually by tipping up the barrel and prying out.
- Yes, he probably should ended it while he was ahead, but in this case, I can empathize with him for prying out an answer from a contributor who did not want to explain himself.
- This is a delicate job that calls for drilling a tiny hole down through the center of the screw, then prying out what remains of the old screw with the point of an ice pick or similar tool.
- There, scores of highly trained experts perform feats of museum wizardry, from studying X-rays of ancient artifacts in the hope of prying out their secrets to reversing the ravages of time on pigments, paints and varnishes.
- Soldiers guarded the house where the body lay as the people of nearby villages stripped the Serb village of Belo Polje down to the plaster, carting away livestock and chickens, furniture, even prying out window frames from sills.
- They are called " the safecrackers " because their specialty is prying out safes from walls, hoisting them onto stolen trucks and driving them deep into the woods where they are broken open with sledge hammers and other implements.
- A report on publishing website affiliate of China s national secrets watchdog accused Rio Tinto of " winning over and buying off, prying out intelligence . . . and gaining things by deceit ", during critical annual iron ore pricing negotiations.
- Going so far as to dig through someone's life and prying out things the other person is " trying " to keep from public view, when they're quite frankly none of any of our business, however, is quite something else.
- Another Syrian-born German, Mohamed Haidar Zammar, 41, who is believed to have helped recruit Atta and other cell members to receive terrorist training from al-Qaida in Afghanistan, is being held in a Syrian jail, where local investigators are prying out answers to questions provided by U . S . investigators.