1.   Many suburban families have sliding glass doors on their patios, with steel bars elegantly built in so no one can pry the doors open.

2.   Stone doors were pried from the burial holes, human bones scattered in the dirt.

3.   When the police pried the apartment door off its hinges, they saw a badly beaten boy limping toward the bedroom, the chains rattling on the wooden floor.

4.   Finally, the elevator doors were pried open and they walked out, cracking jokes about the delay, an aide said.