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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "prise" in a sentence

    prise example sentences

    prise


    1. find a point to ease the tip of the sharp knife into the joint and to prise


    2. Sitting on the toilet she manages to prise the sliver of glass from her calf using her beautifully manicured fingernails


    3. I had to prise her off and she and Mabel clung to each other like survivors on a life raft the parting almost too much to bear for all of us


    4. "What fer?" he asked again, squirming about as he tried to prise my fingers loose


    5. He tried to prise open the wooden door with his fingers, but it wouldn't move


    6. Matthew and his best friends Marcus and Michael used to sneak into a storage area behind the town hall that was situated in Montem Lane, where they found a door that was easy to prise open and practice singing


    7. Those questions would have to be answered, or she would use her knowledge of the Organization, to prise the facts out of him


    8. Taking the phone from Max, she used her foot to prise the charred hand from the phone; it then dawned on Carla that this was her old Thuraya


    9. “When the Grand Wizard finally gave up trying to prise the sword from its setting, he set off


    10. can prise him out of it! I’ll need to bring scissors next time!”

    11. the man’s meaty fingers, trying desperately to prise them away from his


    12. Sometimes the press had been too lazy to prise out of the police the exact circumstances of the original crimes, so he had improvised


    13. She could not prise anything more out of him about Cheung, and the conversation drifted


    14. prise, while regarding this year’s award of the prize as in part a


    15. ’ He managed to prise the shower hose from her hands and replace it on the wall


    16. I saw nothing of the rooms as I rushed along, grabbing the steel spike and heavy hammer I had been using to prise stones out of the ground and returning to the bedroom


    17. God! To prise open her swollen-eyelids & fuck her brains out, I would sell my soul for that


    18. If you’ve ever had to prise hardened gobbets of chewing gum off the underside of a school desk, you’ll understand why I hate the stuff with every fibre in my body


    19. As the mirror image of the trailing stop order to sell, a trailing stop order to buy is an order to buy a security when the prise rises by a specified amount


    20. To lessen chance of breaking them dig around the plant to loosen, then prise them out with a sharpened stick

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    Synonyms for "prise"

    esteem prise prize respect value jimmy lever pry

    "prise" definitions

    to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open


    make an uninvited or presumptuous inquiry


    regard highly; think much of