Used in a Sentence

prying

How to use prying in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for prying.

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Not only does it keep out prying eyes, it ensures the person sending the email is who they say they are.

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Quick take

offensive inquisitiveness

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of prying gathered in one view.

noun

offensive inquisitiveness

adjective

offensively curious or inquisitive; "curious about the neighbor's doings"; "he flipped through my letters in his nosy way"; "prying eyes"; "the snoopy neighbor watched us all day"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for prying.

adjective

offensively curious or inquisitive; "curious about the neighbor's doings"; "he flipped through my letters in his nosy way"; "prying eyes"; "the snoopy neighbor watched us all day"

Example sentences

1

Not only does it keep out prying eyes, it ensures the person sending the email is who they say they are.

2

You can take actions yourself to protect your data from prying eyes when using these services. A quick tip: bring your own encryption.

3

Maybe we can meet up and have a face-to-face, away from the prying eyes and ears of the snooping governments that we all live under in 2013. One final thing.

4

> We make it look easy, but the battery is secured to the case with quite a bit of adhesive, requiring a lot of prying. I seems like you only looked ad the pictures and didn't read the text.

5

It's not clear to me why you lashed out at that person as though they were prying into a private matter, when you opened the discussion on it.

6

It's a tool that has a Tendency to be dangerous, prying, and abusive to its members. But even as a field of vast moral hazard, I've come to view it as "navigable and worth the risks."

7

Then you know you are safe from prying authorities, at least at the border." That is unless you believe that those prying authorities have the will and the way to leave an undetectable backdoor in your laptop.

8

The brits take second to nobody when it comes to prying into the lives of celebrities. Consider the british tabloid press, whose readers could care less about privacy as a principle.

9

I'd also point out that this isn't really a situation where we are prying into a private transaction and forcing people to talk. Our courts are actually enforcing the gag rule that keeps most of us in the dark about what is really going on out there.

10

But as a result of that feeling so contradictory to the statements of the government, it necessitated further prying.

11

Somehow I doubt he feels individual privacy extends to privacy from the government's prying eyes and grasping claws.

12

The most important thing you need to know about a VPN: It secures your computer's internet connection to guarantee that all of the data you're sending and receiving is encrypted and secured from prying eyes. Eh..

13

Ifixit's guides are peppered with warnings about things that can be broken with slightly too much force or by prying in the wrong place. From Apple's perspective, amateur repairs are potentially a source of serious damage to their brand.

14

Worse, once you consider yourself "safe enough" from prying eyes, your incentive to actually act on what they're doing will be diminished. I think that we should try not to be meek about this issue, passively hiding ourselves and then getting on with our lives saying "Fuck you, got mine".

15

Add a security feature with optional passcode and store the images in a way that hides them from prying eyes, and you're guaranteed a million billion horny college students as users. Ben the Bodyguard[1] meets SMS/MMS for relationships.

16

Unless you are very close to the person, it's really unlikely that they're going to talk to you about it, and prying is only going to cause them to withdraw more. Because of the stigma attached to depression, withdrawal is a common tactic, and the more that a person withdraws, the worse their depression gets.

17

It's all very well saying a VPN services keep your communications secure, encrypted and away from the prying eyes of your ISP - but why would you trust a VPN provider more than an ISP? These consumer-oriented VPN services marketing to bittorrent users seem kind of sketchy to me.

18

In Stephen Levy's "Hackers", there is even a story of how the school bought a new military grade safe to keep components in the computer lab safe from prying eyes, but the installer forgot to leave a key. One of the students that the safe was supposed to keep out was asked to pick the lock, and did so with relative ease.

19

They can then access the decryption private keys of anyone, and thus all encryption can be defeated, along with any other means of attempting to hide information from prying eyes. If Google itself is unable to protect its own network from NSA intrusion, what makes you think anyone else is able to?

20

Any expectation of "reasonable restraint" on their invasive prying is, in retrospect, completely foolhardy on my part. Even expecting the US legal/political system to rein them in based on "fairness" or "good manners" or even "basic human rights" is also stupidly over optimistic.

21

Regardless, if you feel or have felt your data was safe from prying eyes on dropbox-- after this I'd go somewhere else before that no longer holds true... I imagine a conversation like, "oh yeah, we'll use Dropbox, we've got $150 million no bid contract ready...

Proper noun examples

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Prying into the details of where I'm going, or trying to have a conversation about whether I should bring a laptop. Fuck that sincerely.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use prying in a sentence?

Not only does it keep out prying eyes, it ensures the person sending the email is who they say they are.

What does prying mean?

offensive inquisitiveness

What part of speech is prying?

prying is commonly used as noun, adjective.