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Sentence Examples Next door is on fire. Poking my head out of the window, I discover great billows of smoke pouring from the old house next door to my building. Poking a coconut out from the fringes of the bush, I tried light-headedly, halfheartedly really, to break it apart on a washed-up giant clamshell. Poking her head out of the window, Jean took a look at the distinguished figure putting on his bicycle clips, donning on a cloth cap and mounting his bike. Poking through this crunchy-sweet vegetable mound is edible ecstasy. Poking underhanded fun at the contestants live on stage was absolutely inexcusable. Poking fun at Daesh puts the group in the looney bin where it belongs, but sometimes being funny goes a little too far. The baby proceeded to explore Nicholas, poking his face and tugging on his hair, giggling the entire time. A small attachment is left poking through the gum and dentures or bridges can be screwed or clipped onto this attachment. Its complexity pulls the viewer around it to notice the edges of the raw clay poking through the luscious gloss of its dark celadon glaze. On this day, the first hepatica buds were poking through the leaf mat, and some were opening into startlingly light-blue flowers. Just inside the gates, an overalled gardener with a gentle face is poking insincerely at the dripping rhododendrons with a pair of secateurs. The last thing they want is some disgraced politician poking round their homes, violating their privacy. Harel heard her sigh and looked at her poking her food on the fine china plate with the silver cutlery. They pinned me down and attacked me, poking their fingers in my eyes, and forced my head into the toilet pan and flushed. He had a dream that some children were poking a bee's nest with a stick and that the bees swarmed out and stung his whole body. Stacey's film parodies the slasher genre while poking fun at Hollywood hopefuls who would do anything to get in front of the camera. He did an excellent job as a lawyer defending his client, poking holes in the prosecution's case, exactly what a defense attorney should do. He stood outside the brewery, with a beer raised to his lips, the downtown skyline poking the cloudless distance behind him. She proceeded to sit next to her loving husband, poking him variously in the ribs and face, and petulantly pushing his chair. These reviews aren't interesting, they're not poking at anything much, they're comforters for the regular readers. Show More Sentences Consequentially, a small but vocal minority has emerged, apparently bent upon poking holes in her faultless public image. Sometimes, you see a hornet's nest, and some wise part of you knows that you shouldn't go poking it with a stick. She tries poking them with a stick to get them down and then throwing a rock. We rode the subway out to the Bronx Zoo, and joined the hordes strolling around poking the animals with sticks. They were dreadful sleepers, but I'm sure that was because I was prodding and poking them all the time! We've been poking him with a sharp stick, and if you do that long enough, you have to either shoot the dog or get bit. She again sat beside the fire, poking at its dead embers with a fallen green tree branch. This morning we are sitting in my friend's big livingroom, poking at the fire in the big fireplace. Then I went back to the clearing, where Solastian was absently poking at the fire and completely oblivious to everything else. Calomar had opened the door to the wood burning stove, and was poking at the fire with a metal poker he had found. After walking for a while they found a wizard sitting in a small clearing poking at a fire with a stick. With an exasperated sigh, she stood and sat by the fire, poking the embers absent-mindedly with a stick. I bought pie plates and string, grabbed a hammer and nail, and began poking holes and stringing pie plates. There were four large sliding doors in the house and beyond them a shrine. I used to be scolded for poking holes in the sliding doors. Even six thousand pounds of ballast wasn't enough to sink it, so we had to try to de-gas it by poking holes in it, and eventually it sank. The door slid open with a familiar creak, an untidy head poking itself through, silhouetted against the warm glow of the lamps outside. Delia quickly caught their senile cat, Picasso, as he was poking his fat little head out. My father's short reddish brown hair was poking out from beneath his hat, and my mother's dark hair wasn't far from being out of order as well. With such visible history, the sun-blackened ruins poking out from the undergrowth and overgrowth, Nevis is fun to explore. Pausing, he scratched a tuft of vibrant red hair poking from beneath his cap. Show More Sentences One had a large backwards blue cap on his head, messy black hair poking out from underneath. The shock of black hair poking from the top of his white OU visor was wet and mussed from a sideline celebration shower. Her fang teeth were starting to extend, poking down so they just visible in her open mouth, and her hands gripped the arms of the chair. Leonard was a very tall young man, with bright blonde hair poking out from under his tattered cowboy hat. My feelings of anger and disgust, but even stronger emptiness, stopped me from poking fun at all my usual subjects. Did I fancy writing a series of short articles poking fun at all the horrendous food that nobody ate any more? Now we take this phenomenon for granted, but back in those early days, poking around inside a remote computer was heady business. It doesn't take much poking around the techie Web sites to find people dreaming hard about physical immortality. Is it really so bad that you'd go to the middle of Death Valley in order to not have studio suits poking around your set? I roll over and hear our daughter poking around the house in search of dyed eggs. He and Hayden were poking around a monsoon drain on Number Thirteen, searching for Hayden's errant drive. We worship an awesome God in the blue states, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the red states. But being the smart, sassy psychology student Ashton now is, he starts poking around, and soon people start dying. This still doesn't guarantee a clean sweep though, especially if I start poking around those uncharted corners of the web. The crossbow bolt was half buried in her upper thigh, the orange and white fletchings poking out. We thought that would be a better way to ring in the season than, say, crabbedly poking at a deck, angry and alone. To steer drivers grasped a tiller poking out of the dash, starting the car involved cranking a handle by the driver's side. The thought of needles poking me all over the body really gives me the creeps. There he stood before a figure with a long black robe and frizzled, unkempt white hair poking out at odd angles from beneath a black hat. I'm standing around in the main room, sniffing and poking the sofa to see if it responds when a shout in my head nearly deafens me. Show More Sentences Landon had several men poking and prodding his bare chest as he sat on the bed table in nothing but his breezers. Not created in some lab with a bunch of doctors and scientists poking and prodding them with instruments. Poppa had a glass prod inside the tank, poking at her and recording her ferocity. Nothing boosts your spirits in early spring like the first daffodils, tulips or grape hyacinths poking through the ground. Emily began poking at the buttons on the keypad, pretending to dial her friend Janey. One man is rather grey and grizzled, with whiskers poking quite a way out of his brow. So dissing your sis, poking fun of her or re-hashing your fights to everyone at the pool will most definitely backfire. The boys and girls would clamber all over it, poking sticks at it and hanging wet gumboots on its ears but it didn't mind in the least. It feels like a diving suit, and this computer equipment seems to be poking through the material! In the hot summer months, when the water level drops, a rotting church steeple can be seen poking up accusingly above the water line. I just saw some crocuses poking out of the ground, which means spring is on its way. An army bomb squad was scrambled to dispose of an unexploded mortar shell found poking out of a rabbit hole. The cup seams can be cut out and used to sew over the poking underwire part. She closed her eyes and lifted her face to the sun poking momentarily from behind the clouds. A source told the paper the England captain lost his rag in the dressing room and tore down a joke poster poking fun at his troubles. Suddenly came Mr Hill's cry for help and as a fireman started to sift through the debris he saw the railman's boots poking through the soil. Occasionally I would be rewarded with a wee, twitching, whiskered snout poking out of the little yellow house. Or perhaps, twisted, tangled strands of rebar poking through piles of concrete rubble in the demolished remains of a hotel or a factory. What we're poking fun at is the kind of people who take a symbol and worship that, which is what happens when people worship celebrity. I zipped him up inside my comfy top thing so that his head was poking out from just under my chin, and I set about cooking dinner. Show More Sentences Our bikes would lie like lazy dragons on their sides behind us, with their front wheels poking into the air, spinning. I spent two hours today poking and poking in order to resite her drip as we cannot find her veins because she is retaining fluid. Still, on a brighter note it is fantastic to see two shoes poking out of my trouser legs again. The colour rose in her cheeks, reddening even her ears poking through her blonde hair. She deftly ties a knot at the end of a long piece of thread before poking the other quickly through the needle's eye. Perhaps you should question your own assumptions about that before you go poking about in mine. The phrase puts me in mind of pub engravings, of rustics in waistcoats lying full-length in rowing boats, poking at ducks with long muskets. Of course, they augured stuff by poking around in crow guts too, so that's how much they knew. Around the back, you'll find a deeper bumper with a chromed tailpipe poking through off-centre, a boot spoiler and some discreet badging. He has a salt-and-pepper mustache, a dab of hair under his lower lip, and a glasses case poking out of his left chest pocket. The two were both horribly bad at the game, but had had fun laughing and poking fun at each other about it. Elsewhere the dialogue recovers and proves capable of poking a little borax at the rigid principles and habits of Scotch piety. Practically every panel in the book has something, often a word balloon, but sometimes an arm or a piece of clothing, poking out over the edge. He used his hands constantly, poking the air, dragging a thumb across his eyebrow, brushing a fly from his cheek. At some point, while poking around on that server, he found an unprotected file containing encrypted passwords. She broke a twig from a nearby tree and began poking it into the soft ground in a desperate effort to busy herself. They are very cute, and with so many people poking their fingers through the cage all day long are already tame and welcome a tickle. She was poking me in so many tickly spots that I was glad my face was hidden down a hole at the time. I withdraw into my own space, wiggling my toes and poking the soft fleur-de-lis at the end of my tail. I yelled into the empty house, waiting for the meow and the poking of her little black head from around a door. Show More Sentences He began as a hairy hippie banjo player who took great delight at poking fun at his fellow Scots. Thankfully the fire crew didn't need to use their cutting equipment and managed to coax the tortoise out of his shell by poking around inside. My eighth grade coach would have benched me for that much slapping, poking, and grabbing. His long golden hair falls down over his shoulders, and you notice two pointed ears poking out from the golden locks. Rachid, who trains the boxers, makes a great play of picking up the youngest lads, weighing them and poking them about before a bout begins. His attempts at poking fun at himself were unappreciated, and the audience started openly asking for him to leave. He is skeletal and scrawny with his minuscule bones poking through his clothes. Isaac Newton risked his vision by poking a bodkin beneath his eyeball to understand how we see. Am I ever going to mend this pile of bras in which the underwire has come poking out? She lets him do the talking while slyly poking a little fun at him along the way. All that is visible is my stockinged toes poking through my slingback heels. If you look closely, you can see some of the nails poking through the wood and it feels authentically gutsy. Let it melt without stirring, occasionally poking any unmelted chocolate down into the liquid chocolate. I had to share a plate with a young mother who had a small boy, with dirty fingers poking into the food. He smiled and she sneered at him, then took a sip of coffee and returned to poking her eggs. He twisted his hands to untangle them, then he discovered my watch and started poking at the liquid crystal display behind the glass. They scurry across the marble floors, perch snoozing on the railings and snuggle into holes low down in the walls, their long tails poking out. Chief among these was a large green upholstered sofa with tufts of stuffing poking out here and there. Socket guards stop children receiving electric shocks from poking objects into plug sockets. I mean, I had half a dozen people poking in my prominently displayed nether regions for 3 hours of pushing. Show More Sentences It was exciting stuff, and two minutes later Kanoute bustled his way through before poking the ball wide to Cole. He'd be staggering and falling over and sometimes there was a gang of kids following and poking fun and laughing. He turned around, not a hair out of place, the pen poking out the top of his breast pocket. The husband looked up from poking the washing machine with his screwdriver to suggest I was being obdurate. There's a lantern procession, carols and much feasting on stargazy pie with pilchard heads poking through the piecrust. I perch happily on a stool, poking gleefully at a small aquarium with a few brightly colored fish in it. He slides the stick shift into gear then rests his left hand on the wheel, poking a casual right elbow out of the window. It's probably one of those subconscious violent desire oojamaflips poking through one of them veneer of respectability thingamabobs again. No amount of sucking my cheeks in, blowing them out, poking them in with my fingers, attempting to trap them between my teeth while attempting to hold a smile worked. The painting is of a human heart set inside a wind-up music box that has a metal rod poking out of the pulmonary artery. But, as the people of Irving are now discovering, all of this poking and prodding is not without potential consequences. Before long heads began poking above the water's surface, and eventually big critters with blackish shells and spraddled legs began pulling themselves onto shore. A dibble was an instrument for poking holes in the ground for planting. Actually, the documentary celebrates the glam lifestyle while subtly poking fun at it, suggesting that, beneath the sequins and spotlights, they're just like us. By poking fun at the bodies or habits of the powerful, comic cards could attack social proprieties and conventions without accountability or retribution. But he wasn't convinced and after a bit of poking around said he thought it was more likely to be osteoarthritis, arguing that my hip joints may have simply worn out. Don't be surprised if not long from now another group of gagmen finds success by poking affectionate fun at spiky hair, nasal vocals and high-speed songs about breaking up. We're still poking around to see what prompted Sherry's change of heart. You're not stepping on them, you're not poking them, you're not biting them as a predator might, where they would have a need to use their stinger. We cut to the next scene, where he is now under a large mound of sand, now with only the top of his head visible, poking through the side of the mound. Show More Sentences From here towards the stern, the hull is a fairly featureless mound of steel until you get to a section of propshaft poking out from under the plates. So if you're still poking around the beach in rolled-up trousers and a floppy hat, wishing you could get out to a reading or something, well, you can. Sure, all of us enjoy poking fun at our loquacious, irrepressible, unpredictable vice president. At first he didn't get the joke, but then he was slapping his thigh, poking his finger at his photographer. Ben watched her as she worked, wisps of her hair falling about her face and her tongue just visibly poking out of the corner of her mouth as she concentrated. Of course, the aesthetics on view here are all about comedy, and irony and poking fun and paradox. Doing a little poking around this morning on the real estate websites of uberbrokers Corcoran and Douglas Elliman, we're chagrined to note that Ms. Rich may have a point. The snowdrops and aconites are nearly over but crocuses and daffodils are taking their place in the spotlight, and the foliage of early tulips may be poking through already. So I was poking around the Chronicle's annual survey of endowments. He moved the ball from one foot to the other, but overstretched himself and ended up merely poking a tame shot towards goal that the goalkeeper easily picked up. By poking holes, lots of holes, in the prevailing theories of today. Chaucer's habit of poking fun at pardoners and summoners is not so much an example of impiety as a way of demonstrating how much virtue he has to spare. And so were her perky boobies poking through a deliciously thin white top. Kumma was poking at the fire with a stick, his eyes flickering the blaze. The stuff goes on well enough on the flat, but poking it into the carious vermiculations of randomly quarried puddingstone turned out to be a bit of a challenge. Yet the group failed to produce any biological agent, and were reduced to poking bags with umbrellas to disseminate the sarin gas they were able to make. He strode back to the van and returned with his largest cornet yet, four flakes poking out like the legs of an upturned chocolate chair buried in an avalanche of ice cream. Al Pacino comes dressed in black and gray, wearing multiple bracelets and an unkempt tuft of hair poking up from his scalp. Robert Rauschenberg is photographed like a schoolboy prankster with his tongue poking out. There is no need for yousuns to be poking the finger at them. Show More Sentences Before I can stop him, the boy is sitting on his knees next to my father, poking his chest in the nauseatingly adorable way that only a preschooler can accomplish. Trent and I had just sneaked into the storage closet when his gaze drifted to the snare drum, and before I knew it, he started poking holes into it. I dug my fingers into his side, poking him between his ribs. The deck here used to be intact but now it has peeled off and fallen to the seabed, leaving a tangle of debris from below the deck and exposed ribs poking up from the hull. For those who are curious, the researchers blew up the eggshells by poking holes in the top and the bottom, emptying them of egg, and filling them with hydrogen gas instead. Visitors looking eastward can gaze upon the dead trees poking from beneath the surface of Earthquake Lake, the lake that formed behind the rockslide. But you don't have to be a Little Englander to be concerned about the commission poking their noses into a tax regime which is, after all, in its fourth decade of operation. I assume that we'll be going in, but instead he crosses towards the sea loch, and there below the road, poking out of an old dry-stone wall, is a cluster of chanterelles. It growled at him and latched its teeth onto the windshield, the very tips of its fangs breaching the meager shield and poking holes in the glass. One could go on poking holes, but the improbabilities are legion. In severe breaks, the broken bone may be poking through the skin. The traveller is shown poking his head and right arm through a boundary of stars enclosing this everyday world and reaching out to a universe of wonders beyond. We all enjoy poking fun at fast food now and then, but this prankster takes it to a whole new paranormal level. Scientists have observed a dolphin trying to get a reluctant moray eel to come out of its crevice by poking it with the spiny body of a dead scorpionfish. The song was originally sung by away fans poking fun at an Aberdeen fan set on fire on a train while wearing a homemade sheep costume. Now we have a sea of flue pipes poking out of each roof, spoiling the look of the roof lines. Mass to Then there's the great humour of the Just William books, pricking pomposity and poking fun at poodle-fakers in a classically British way. When he wasn't yukking it up over the Albert assault case, he was poking fun at the ongoing Stones tour. First aiders were poking fingers into my open wound to check there were no pieces of bull horn stuck inside. The Aussies have tried to talk a good game, poking fun at England eating mung bean curry and haloumi kebabs. Show More Sentences He walked right up to me, the knife poking him in the abdomen, just above his bulge. If you want value you're left poking around at the god-forsaken limits of unlikeliness. She comes over, all blonde hair poking out from her scrunchy. At first I mistook the plat du jour for macaroni cheese but after poking around in poor French was told it was salsify, the roots when cooked actually tasting like oysters. Debutant striker David Ashplant bagged the first of his hat-trick after just five minutes, poking home on the line after a Jordan Craig shot was saved. In fact, it's Freshfield in the evening sunshine, and the strange objects poking up out of the sand are wormcasts, rather than a bizarre geological formation. Hoping to finally settle the question of whatever happened to the Minoans are several archaeologists who have managed to spend 25 years poking around on the beaches of Crete. Giant washing machines tumble jeans with pumice gravel, and workers rough up the denim by scrubbing, patching, discoloring, creasing, and poking holes. The photographs are copious and fascinating, including electron microscope views of hideous mite larvae and a shot of the inebriated cetologist poking at a whale carcass. She moved my rutter so that it was not poking into her. We fell asleep. Examples from Classical Literature Poking a young bird was sufficient to elicit this sound, phonetically a nasal peek. Poking my head out while on all fours, I came nose-to-nose with a 150-pound mountain goat, ghostly white in the starlight. This was fortunate because Mr. Black loved roses, and spent much time poking about among them with trowel and pruning shears. Great humble-bees haunted the walls, and were poking about in them constantly. What if Neill Sheridan, poking about alone with a candle, could see through that veil? He was squatting on the floor next to an oriental coffee tray poking at a narghile that had gone out. Or athanor, a chemical stove, which works on for a long time without poking. Rancher so mad he frow axe at bear, an it hit right there, explained Omney, poking his foot at the scar on the bear. When I saw you poking at it with that paper knife I thought it might be poisoned. Now what d'ye suppose the sillies are poking poles under there, for? Sidney considered, poking a slim finger into the little holes in the box. He was poking along through his ups and downs, and when he come to that place he went right along. And I won't have it spoiled, by every nincompoop poking his nose into it. After all, it needs very little poking about in the past to find that hole in the wall, that great breach in the defenses of English history. Constance had set to work poking the fire logs with the tongs. They went about poking sticks into the sand, and when they found a soft place they went down on their knees and dug with their hands. Grant, who are always quarrelling, and that poking old woman, who knows no more of whist than of algebra. He is a busybody and always poking his nose in where he has no business. The inane Atkinson was still hanging about, humming and poking things with his knobby cane. I was poking at my dumpling when he asked me if I were a socialist. Show More Sentences At last, in my despair, I saw a little door in the roof, and on poking it open, a red eye appeared, and a beery voice said. They are eternally poking into corners with a feather duster. I'm hoping we will get our work done before they get poking their noses into it and messing up all the trails. Alexander moved about restlessly and fell to poking the fire. Mademoiselle was poking at a rusty stove that smoked a little and warmed the room indifferently. Strange to say, the whimsical little brute falsified my expectations by jumping into my lap and poking its sharp muzzle familiarly into my hand the moment I sat down. But when you're in the house don't go wandering and poking about. We had a charming time poking about the ruins, the vaults where the monster tun is, and the beautiful gardens made by the elector long ago for his English wife. Early the third morning Tom Sawyer wisely went poking among some old empty hogsheads down behind the abandoned slaughter-house, and in one of them he found the refugee. Find more words! 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