Wondering how to use Prying in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as nosy or nosey.
Prying meaning
present participle and gerund of pry
Synonyms of Prying
Using Prying
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of pry
- Useful related words include: nosy, nosey, snoopy, curious.
- In the example corpus, prying often appears in combinations such as: prying eyes, from prying, the prying.
Context around Prying
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 7 middle, 11 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Prying
- In this selection, "prying" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 26.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, starts, china, usual, eyes, open and questions stand out and add context to how "prying" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include from the prying eyes of and activity from prying eyes. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "prying" sits close to words such as abducting, accentuate and accomplishes, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with prying
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Safeguard your sensitive data from prying eyes and potential breaches. (10 words)
This ensures that sensitive information remains hidden from prying eyes. (10 words)
Adequate privacy allows you to do the things you want or normally do without any prying eyes. (17 words)
His dwindling flock is mostly white, but no one, including the non-Jewish woman providing pumps for his flooded Miami shul, subjects him to the usual prying questions that Black Jews — and Black Jewish clergy — often face from their coreligionists. (40 words)
Teoscar Hernandez figures to be one of the more coveted free agent outfielders available this offseason, but it sounds like interested teams are going to have quite the challenge prying him away from the Los Angeles Dodgers. (37 words)
Contrastingly, as the passionate Moon in your philosophy zone awakens simmering Chiron in your finance sector, you might be embarrassed if a listener starts prying into whether you put your money where your mouth is. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
Contrastingly, as the passionate Moon in your philosophy zone awakens simmering Chiron in your finance sector, you might be embarrassed if a listener starts prying into whether you put your money where your mouth is.
Excellent swimmers and weighing up to one kilogramme (2.2 pounds), they eat almost everything, while their sharp, blue-tinted claws are particularly adept at prying open clam shells.
Foreign businesses are worried the law could be invoked to justify China prying into their confidential information and proprietary data.
His dwindling flock is mostly white, but no one, including the non-Jewish woman providing pumps for his flooded Miami shul, subjects him to the usual prying questions that Black Jews — and Black Jewish clergy — often face from their coreligionists.
If you must use a public network, consider using a virtual private network (VPN) to encrypt your data and protect your online activity from prying eyes.
In October, a video posted on showed a group of people prying open the doors of a Mumbai local train coach in a desperate attempt to board it.
It offers fast speeds and strong encryption so your data is kept safe from prying eyes at all times.
One, a house of 110,000 square feet with 30 bedrooms, was completed and occupied and is now shielded from prying eyes by a forest full of newly planted evergreens.
Safeguard your sensitive data from prying eyes and potential breaches.
The former Welsh Guards officer, known as Marko to his friends, would visit William at boarding school, helped foster Harry's romantic relationships and protected the young prince from prying photographers.
The main issue would be prying Lange away from the Liberty, for whom he has worked as an assistant to his wife, Sandy Brondello, for the last two seasons.
This ensures that sensitive information remains hidden from prying eyes.
Wherever Indigenous Peoples are halting the flow of profits, the C-IRG will show up, lock down the area, exclude journalists and then arrest everyone — far from the prying eyes of the public.
Adequate privacy allows you to do the things you want or normally do without any prying eyes.
As the only cast members, they take it in turns to seamlessly morph into other characters, to depict vignettes, fraught with tension and humour, of unwanted visitation from prying members of the community.
On inspection, it was discovered that bandits gained entry to the home by prying open a glass window on the ground floor of the two storey house.
Teoscar Hernandez figures to be one of the more coveted free agent outfielders available this offseason, but it sounds like interested teams are going to have quite the challenge prying him away from the Los Angeles Dodgers.
The real drama between the couples has been going on away from the prying eyes of the cameras.
Whether you’re sunbathing, hosting a BBQ, or just enjoying a quiet evening outdoors, nobody wants prying eyes ruining their moment.
Yet, prying away DeBrusk from Boston was atop Vancouver’s offseason to-do list, according to Thomas Drance of The Athletic, who expanded on the organization’s bullish interest in signing the veteran winger.
Common combinations with prying
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- prying eyes 29×
- from prying 21×
- the prying 8×
- prying open 7×
- prying into 4×
- by prying 3×
- and prying 3×
- prying questions 2×
- any prying 2×
- to prying 2×