Pried in a sentence

If Reichert wins, Republicans will retake control of the board after Democrats pried it away from years of Republican management with the 2020 election of Terra Lawson-Remer.

I had Apple replace the battery on my previous phone (an iPhone 8) and it came back looking like they pried it apart using a dull flat blade screwdriver.

This same suspect then entered a mail room and pried open mailboxes.

Thomas Forrester (Matthew Atkinson) plans to try bonding with RJ soon, so it’d be interesting if he pried details out of him that no one else has been able to get so far.

The absurd, kitsch delight of an eight-foot-tall replica of a Heinz ketchup bottle stiffens when the lid is pried open to reveal its silk-lined cavity, filling the room with the reminder of your mortality.

Daddy pried the metal cover off, to show me a magnet, which looked like a doughnut made of insulated wire.

Richard Wilbanks, 74, of Estero ran into his backyard pond, wrestled the gator above surface, and pried its jaws open to free Gunner, his Cavalier King Charles spaniel.

Shortly after the last of the Beijing diplomats departed, law enforcement officials cordoned off the area and men who appeared to be US officials pried open a rear door.

Someone pried open a community mailbox in the area of Ridgeplume Drive and Boxelder Drive in Murrieta late May 6, 2020, and stole the mail.

They pried open the cash office door, and used a Sawzall or something to cut a hole in the side of the safe.

A police report says two suspects pried open a door and took $89 in cash from the animal hospital located at 980 S. Pine St. Both suspects had their faces covered and wore gloves.

But in March of last year, a local court ruled in Mr. Fintiklis’s favor and a workman pried off the silver T-R-U-M-P name from the 70-story property, Panama’s tallest building.

Doors were pried open and cabinets and rooms were gone through in all three churches.

From experience, we know the doors will be pushed, kicked, leaned on, jammed, pried, scratched, probably barfed and pissed on, the full range of human weirdness.

It has a solid back that can't be pried open so easily.

The door had been pried open and a bicycle reported missing.

The following night on Thursday, July 4, a man and woman were at Celebrity Coin Laundry, located at 464 W Oakland Ave, and the male pried open several washer and dryer units, stealing the coins.

Then, prosecutors released a November 2017 voicemail from John Dowd, President Trump’s personal attorney at the time, in which Dowd pried Flynn’s lawyers about the discussions they were having with the special counsel.

They also pried their way into the front doors of a neighbouring building and stole clothing from the laundry room.

Troney, and two other men pried the truck door open.