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Sentence Examples Sturdy metal doors, held shut with spring latches, keep prying eyes and little hands away from the internal components. Its mutely inscrutable facade of bald concrete shields the house from the effects of the harsh south sun and deflects prying eyes. Farms can also provide outbuildings or barns for work to take place away from prying eyes. Is it a hiding place away from the prying eyes of Gestapo agents, or is it equivalent to collaborating with the enemy? Muir retrieved his letters to Carr and had some sections expurgated from them, which he hoped to reserve from the future's prying eyes. They wanted to build a closed community where they could practise polygamy away from prying eyes. The Punic admiral's retreat was ill-received at home, and Carthage responded with a larger force, prying out the Romans. Afterwards it will once again be under lock and key, behind a shatterproof, bulletproof, glass window, away from prying fingers. This is just another example of the insidious prying into peoples' lives that is so prevalent in our society today. And many states have statutes to prevent employers from prying into an employee's private life. We are following him, prying into the inmost privacy of someone else's life. Not for the first time he attempts to personalise the issue by prying into my private affairs. Now he must woo his beloved away from the prying eyes of his fellow club members. Whatever happened to that unwritten rule about not prying into each others personal lives? She claimed that loutish youths, prying locals and boorish day-trippers were making life intolerable. Or I'd say, Oh, no comment, or Mind your business, or Leave me alone and stop prying into my life. Walking to the door, I found it locked and ad to sneak in the bathroom window, prying it open with a screwdriver form the garage. These will have to be removed or amended, and God help them if some newspaper gets a photo of someone prying one of those plaques off the wall. He can placate all those prying legislators who keep embarrassing MLB with hearings on Capitol Hill. Goggles or safety glasses should be worn whenever hammering, prying, or cutting materials. Show More Sentences It is believed the gangs have targeted Scotland because it has so much rural land which is remote from prying eyes. By drawing your curtain there will be no intrusion or prying eyes into your movement in the house. But fear not as the boy wizard is only perfecting a little magic away from the prying eyes of his beastly uncle Vernon. Now I accept such prying cameras have proved to be an invaluable tool in tracing the terrorists. At four feet five inches tall, Fin's dwarfism has earned him prying stares and questions all of his life. To prevent prying eyes from seeing your personal email, consider using encryption software. The next time you decide to jump a red light, the prying eyes of the law may not be the only ones to be wary of. Sleeveless tops and short skirts make it impossible to hide from the prying eyes of children. Yet again, he displayed the elusive nature of a Lord Lucan as he succeeded in evading the prying cameras outside Mountjoy. The cities had also acquired a political conscience to protect themselves from prying princes. Garden birds need undergrowth to hide and rest in and nest sites in your large hedge, away from the prying eyes of the magpies. Some sought to contradict him, while others tried, unsuccessfully, to ignore his prying. We had always stayed out of each others private business, prying only when we deemed it absolutely necessary. Yet even so, it quickly became clear why the junta wished to keep out prying eyes. He tried prying open the trunk, but the lock held fast, and he only succeeded in bending the lid slightly. I blessed her for knowing what I wanted and not asking any prying questions. Details of our judges' individual sentencing records and workloads remain tucked away in official files away from prying eyes. The Guardian accused its competitors of pandering to a voyeur instinct by prying into Blunkett's life. They are often detected by their foraging taps, bark prying, and drumming. And it can't hide your amour's frequently dialed number from prying eyes. Show More Sentences Such Argus-eyed surveillance is now so widespread that criminals on television cover prying lenses or conduct their malefactions outside photographic range. Dinah wanted to scowl back at him, but she held it down, smiling sweetly instead before ascending the stairs to get away from her parents and their prying questions. She was hounded by the prying paparazzi, desperate to label her a partied-out starlet. Lobbyists use these trips to lavish bounty on Congressmen, far from prying eyes. Also the luggage area has been given a tonneau cover that moves with the rear seats to maintain its job of keeping articles in the boot from prying eyes. Paranoid and deeply unlikable curmudgeon that he was, O'Brian had used his shadowy false identity as a screen against the prying eyes of the world. Events are experienced at a far remove, mediated by communications technologies in which the assumed perspective is that of the snooperscope, the prying electronic eye. And yet he comes to loathe the prying eye of the camera on his soaked, exhausted, and shivering men. The difficulty, and I mean the entire difficulty, is prying the industry away from congressional Republicans. These are the departed rich who wanted to spend eternity away from the prying eyes of common citizens. Rollins agreed that Rove may have a hard time prying open rich Republican wallets in the future. She discouraged impertinent curiosity with frozen silence and there is an uneasy feeling, as one reads, that one is prying into her chosen privacy. You'll be able to do more serious prying with the western pigsticker. As soon as Alex thought it was safe, he took Sara out in the piney woods north of town to a big clearing away from prying eyes where she could practice her flying. She didn't want to feel like she was prying into Keira's private life by going through her cupboard, but she thought that she'd be doing the girl a favour by cleaning it out. Some men earn their keep by prying into the lives of others, to inform their clients for fee whether those overseen or overheard are criminal, adulterous, employable. The only way I could open them was by prying them open with my fingers. I had to learn more without the prying eyes of people who knew me. Nor were the escorts there to admonish me for asking a rude question of the partying faithful, or to protect the paying customers from the prying media. A slum dweller has no door to slam in the face of prying reporters. Show More Sentences Some think that prying news reports are a necessary evil in a democracy. Other times, the professional eavesdropper subconsciously shields himself with wire fences, translucent plastic sheeting, and window drapery to deflect prying questions. It is the opposite of grinding out small profits away from prying eyes. These are things that most Pueblos traditionally keep secret, despite the prying of anthropologists and the occasional indiscretion of informants and writers. And cracking is the word, as it's a messy but enjoyable task prying the meat from the spiny lobster. Johnson's Buck's party was also held at a location in the Perth Hills away from prying eyes. He picked up the mattock, which combines an axe head and a prying tool, and went inside. Nutcrackers also have evolved a long, sturdy and slightly decurved bill perfect for tearing into whitebark pine cones and prying out the seeds. Yet when she turns away, raising those arms in a priestesslike gesture, that fabric acts as a curtain, shielding her from prying eyes. Accounts with the Medici were kept secret and generally free from prying, ecclesiastical eyes, especially in the case of discretionary deposits. Thais haemastoma is a large gastropod with a strong columellar muscle and heat may have made prying them from their shells easier. Once free from prying eyes, he immediately led his troops in a series of attacks on the surrounding Roman garrisons. The prying into his methods forced Crompton to choose between destroying his machine or making it public. The small enclosed garden, or herber, was a place for quiet contemplation or perhaps for gossip away from prying eyes and ears. She could stand it no longer. It was full of prying old women, she said, who stared in one's face, and of bumptious young men who trod on one's toes. Yet, apparently, fears of policemen in civilian clothes prying about unsuspectedly on the behalf of the central government were as strong, if not stronger. The Hallagan breaching tool is a modified crowbar made of non-sparking material with an extra spike and a wedge shaped adz at one end for additional prying and leverage. In the Marvelverse, mutants are potential victims of hate crimes and of state-sponsored pogroms, and of the sort of bureaucratic prying that is often a prelude to the latter. Examples from Classical Literature There in the open day she felt as if some prying glance might read her grief. He took pictures of Scotty, with wrecking bar, prying at likely places in the exposed part of the ship. I've lodged them with the Capuchins, where not even a prying sunbeam can espy them. He had intended to be considerate and had achieved only the appearance of prying. The pucelle is at least the wit of a rational man, and not the prying beastliness of a satyr. Is there a single spot which the eye, by any peering or prying, can fathom or exhaust? Muckraking was just beginning in those days, and a prying reformer came to live for a while at the greasy spoon. Peeping and prying into greenroom gossip of the day, the poet's drinking, the poet's debts. He even becomes a quidnunc, prying now and then into the personal affairs of his superiors. My dear Mr. Vidal, what is the use if half Cromer has been up here prying about? These flies are continually prowling about and prying into every corner, to find, by stealth, a nidus for their eggs. In fact, nosiness and prying are unbecoming at any time, and in no one more than in a military officer. Or because I was dangerous, prying into their smuggling activities. It would be ridiculous to be prying and analytic in such cases, as if one were inquiring into the character of a confidential clerk. So he kept it in his strongbox, where he thought it safe from prying eyes. If we are to be prying and spying into all the dismals of life, we should have no heart to anything. The sides of the wound gaped, and the blade was visible to my prying eyes. But the world might guess it, and I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into the matter. The attentive porter, on the look-out for his fee pulls down the blinds over the side windows of the carriage, and shuts out all prying eyes in that way. Show More Sentences Wretch, receive the reward of your prying, and become a dog. The binding was of blue velvet, with clasps of silver worked in beautiful arabesque patterns, and with a lock of the same precious metal to protect the book from prying eyes. Find more words! 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