Qwilleran had a sympathetic way of asking prying questions and a sincerity that could draw out confidences.

Yet when asked the most prying questions, she bared her soul.

At times, Boulmerka had been forced to train in Italy, to get away from the taunts and the prying questions.

That's what Moses says to tell outlanders who keep asking too many prying questions.

He was tired of their prying questions and their corrosive skepticism.

He was asked a prying question: Do the leaders of the free world tip the piano man?

This time Sean frowned as though he resented the prying questions.

Supper with the officers stopped any prying questions.

He also refused to answer a series of more prying questions about the sexual nature of the affair, the official said.

Desideria said, "He is a strange man-your brother," but the words held no hint of a prying question.