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Sentence Examples Had I the guts I could have poked in, made an appearance, and then amscrayed with a solid-eight on my time-sheet. I grinned and stepped back slightly, but was pushed further as he poked me with the stick. Abi was taken to an admissions room, where she was poked and prodded and monitored by various midwives and doctors. If people are poked with a sharp enough stick, like the threat of a large-scale war, they'll respond. Steve poked his head out the window and saw that a volcano had erupted and a hot lava flow was headed right towards the hotel! He reseated himself and poked Riann in the side, prompting him to stand and speak. From 1946 onwards, I have continuously poked fires with the help of various materials. Rolling my eyes at their puerility, I poked carefully at my meal and observed the fellow passengers in our immediate vicinity. He poked the partially burned wood a few times with a stick and flames rose and crackled as they burned brighter. The page stirred from his pallet on the hearth and poked the fire back to life, then padded over, yawning, with a candle. One person, the leader, judging by the odd tufts of fur in random spots on his cloak, poked at the fire with his staff. After a bit the dough gets more resilient and when poked with a finger, springs back at you. The whole week went real smooth, except for one little incident where I kind of poked a hole in one of the pictures. You've poked more holes into what's left of my ship, and I don't want to wait around here for whoever may come looking. The doctor, a balding man with a pitted red nose, poked his head around the doorframe. At the sound of his rumbling voice, Gualtero poked his tousled brown head out of the shadows. He just poked out his tongue from behind his helmet as he sent the puck back to the centre. A small, shriveled head poked itself out from the miniature doorway and peered at her. Finally, the door creaked over and my father poked his skinny, bony face into the room. A man with a tonsure, much like the friars of old, poked his awkwardly shaped head out of the opening. Show More Sentences I conceded that it was indeed made of rubber, as was I, as he poked and prodded my palm. When I awoke, I was covered in strange purple hairs that poked out through my clothes and made a sound only dogs could hear. Heather grinned at him and poked her perfectly manicured fingernail into his ribcage. Wiry white and grey hairs poked out of his thick, flabby ears and his blue eyes were shoved deep into this rough-skinned face. White hair poked out from under his cap and a pipe was clenched between his teeth. You poked two holes at opposite sides of the pie lid, then squirted the jelly down the second hole until it came out of the first hole. My middle name smacks of big slobbery dog jokes and yet my last name was the one kids poked fun at in school. It poked fun at all the seriousness that reality TV has become, and it made stereotypical reality TV scenes into comedic segments. He had poked his nose into all her private affairs from the start, so why shouldn't she return the compliment? Ramsey said search teams looked in burrows and sometimes poked around with sticks. They rummaged rubbish heaps and poked around stacks of dried straw that lay against one part of the fence. Believe me, we scoured the countryside and poked around in every old cabin and mining shack we could locate. The creature poked a tiny head out from under the bush, two huge floppy ears dangling to its feet. She got down on her knees, poked her head over the arm of a chair and stared at us as if she had been electrocuted. Standing at the foot of his bed, the figures were so tiny that their heads barely poked above the footboard. Undoubtedly, wandering cragsmen poked about the cliffs, but none of them published their activities. I poked my head up and began to look around, shining the light across the attic floor and into all the nooks and crannies. Heather Clarke, a small gobbet of beef poked between her gloved finger and thumb, held out her arm. All this tracked through my mind as I poked down the road to the curvy dirt lane leading up to Zork's daddy's cottage. When we got back I found another arsey note from the management company had been poked through my letterbox over at the flat. Show More Sentences She believed that she got the lead poisoning when a sharp pencil was poked into her cheek. After hearing somewhat of a ruckus in the lecture hall, Katt took a detour and poked her head in to investigate. Marion poked at the water, making ripples on its glassy surface, but nothing happened. I'd already been poked and calculated so he left me alone like I weren't nothing more than a sack of taters. I poked and prodded at these sites in hopes to locate some remaining muscle tissue, but very little was found. She hated being fitted since she usually was prodded and poked by malicious pins. A knock on her chamber door wrenched Sisilla from her sorrowful reverie, as a doe-eyed servant girl poked her head into the room. The others managed not to laugh and my girlfriend poked me to make me stop giggling, but that just made it funnier to me. The door of the small room opened, and a naval enlisted man with the markings of a master-at-arms poked his head in. She couldn't see the hole to thread the needle, and upon sticking it into the fabric she poked herself again. I have to go to the doctor tomorrow to get prodded and poked in a variety of places I prefer not to be prodded and poked in. She poked at the fire causing it to flare up and throw more shadows across their faces. Brandark had found a boulder to use as a heat reflector and slept between it and the fire with only his beaky nose poked out of his blankets. Lauren easily beat her father five games to one, and poked fun at his age and physical fitness. She was poked, prodded, and pinned until she was done up in one of the most elaborate gowns she'd ever worn. I poked him, and he groaned, rolling over to expose a greenish countenance. Olivia poked and prodded at me for a few minutes as she tried to make sure that she knew what to fix and what to leave. In this review, he poked holes in the methodologies of those studies, but many of the criticisms were invalid. A pair of short tooth-like horns poked from a bush of curly hair that topped the faun's clever-looking face. It all started nearly 50 days ago when I poked my egg tooth out of my shell. Show More Sentences The ants probed the caterpillars much less often than they poked at mealworms. The sensor can be attached to a spike that is pushed into soil or poked into a tree trunk, or it can be clamped to a plant stem. They poked at her mischievously, while most likely sharing insults in their own language. I poked it gently with the knife, even though I could see that it had been shredded, it had given its life for the family. As always he kept a careful watch on David as he poked around the store, Craig had little trust in him. A window opened and a girl around the age of eleven or twelve poked her head out the window. He cautiously poked the first node, concentrating solely on the object at hand so that he didn't hear the loud blare of ambulances approaching. A tall woman with a mop of curly blonde hair and huge owl glasses poked her head out. As I was about to bound down the staircase, my neighbour's head poked from her doorway accusingly. The second the resounding echo of Bryant's door shutting faded, a small, rather mousy looking man poked his head out of an adjacent office. He poked at the fire with a stick pushing unburned dung cakes into the centre. On it, you're constantly jostled, poked, elbowed and stepped on by your boogieing neighbours. My pencil was blunt as I was not allowed sharp ones in case I deliberately poked my self in the eye, or something. Nothing was happening until a chipmunk poked his head through the flowers, looked at me, and dove back under. I flew beside him, taking giant strides so as not to fall, until we came upon the Jeep, from the underneath of which Johnny's feet poked out. After a moment, she poked at the memory of what had happened, probing it like she probed her sternum. She demanded again, and poked Greg in the arm until he stopped slouching, moved up to the suit, and yanked off the helmet. He's poked the borax at the mayor over the budget issues that the new council is facing. He quickly looked up at her and winked as a tiny silver box poked up from behind the desk. A muzzle poked out, but I was disappointed to see that it was the pink nose of an albino colt. Show More Sentences Tiny, fragile claws poked through the hole, followed by a slender snout, nostrils flaring. Coral poked her head around the kitchen door, setting down the wok she had been holding. It poked its little head out of his lap, and its little blue eyes were darling! The trip to the surgery taxed me more than somewhat, along with the malaise that comes from being prodded and poked. They pulled me, poked me, sucked blood out of me, pumped drugs into me, and you know what? They still couldn't find anything wrong with me. Now, several dozen spearheads were poked into their faces and ready to skewer the two if need be. The knuckle of his index finger poked my bare hip, which I hadn't realized was bare until that point. Sivar turned away and chipped at a splinter of wood that poked from the window ledge. He gave me a noogie and then poked so much fun at me, I almost smacked him also. The window rolled down, and a mustached face of a stereotypical London cabbie poked out. Jac picked up a fork and poked at the greens, making a wry face and glancing with envy at her plate. Critics have poked holes in her arguments, alleging that her renowned depth of knowledge is shockingly shallow. I spent hours folding the back pages just right so I could see the punchline to a joke that always poked fun at our society. Tesha raised an eyebrow and poked Marl in the stomach, deflating his puffed-up chest. Small villages, hayricks, gloomy barns, steaming dung-heaps and frost blasted trees poked from the snow in black detail. Leaning over, she took hold of an iron stick and with it poked at the fire, stoking the dying flames. Her colleagues laughed heartily that day in Parliament and poked fun at me thereafter when we met socially. Grumbling, the heavyset sheriff opened the bag and poked through it, bumping glass vials together. Her thoughts stopped abruptly when someone poked her in the back of her shoulder with the stub of a pencil eraser. Deb harvests cuttings from her potted succulents, leaving short stubs of stem that can be poked through the wreath's outer layer of moss. Show More Sentences The bones in her elbows poked out on either side of her arms and her hip bones barely held up her short skirt. The keys made a metallic grinding sound as Kim poked and turned them in the keyhole. I blinked and realized a pair of ears poked out of the mass of furriness and it turned out to be an animal of some kind. Two smashed ribs had poked splintered ends through his skin, and getting at them to renew the dressings was a painful business. That was the only goal of the first half but Jimmy Spencer poked home in a goalmouth scramble just before the hour. She poked a few more holes in the belt and then cinched it around her waist. He fingered the well-used salt and pepper shakers, poked the laminated menu and generally mooched about until Kate appeared. Pale, colorless hair poked out from between the bandages that covered his head, and his eyes were a bloodshot yellow. The Nemesis poked her way ahead through the mud-banks and found a route for the warships, which debouched into the main channel only five miles from the city. As I waited to speak to Manning, a cleaning woman poked her head out from one of the adjacent rooms to peer at me. I poked my head around the corner, wearily eying the bustling servants. Sunlight poked through the slats in the white blinds over my window. The red haired boy was watching in amused silence, and I poked him. She tapped the aluminium of my canteen, tried to bend the laminated steel of my knife blade, stared and poked at the compass mounted it its perspex bubble in the hilt. She was standing like a lamped rabbit in the middle of the stage and no matter how many times I prodded and poked and pretended to fight, she didn't rise to it. It was sometimes Andy himself, as when he poked fun at Elinor Donohue after she vowed to run for office. The girl threw a log on the fire, and poked the embers into flames. He sat at the kitchen table and poked at yesterday's mail with one finger. As any journalist who has poked at this hornet's nest can tell you, myself included, the wrath of the 4chan hive is no picnic. Thanks to all of the above, the city has found itself lovably poked fun of in the spot-on satire of Portlandia. Show More Sentences I reached out and poked it only to be rewarded with a throb of pain. Then he pointed to my sunken cheeks where a couple gray whiskers poked through. A very long, formerly bluish muffler trailed its scraggly ends down his front and back, and the fat, rounded tips of his shoes poked out from beneath his trousers. An orange tabby cat poked its head out of the grass and mewed. I poked my head back into the sickbay, hissing for Keejana's attention. At others, he poked fun at the critics, or simply moshed with the crowd. Akos poked his great shaggy head around the frame and looked at her. I was forced to admit that I've never actually poked an aardvark, due to the fact that they're always asleep, and unsportingly refuse to come out and be prodded. The head of this family, atop his roof with the rest, poked his head gingerly above the parapet, fearing the worst. The soda bread is done if a fork poked into the bread comes out clean. He describes the piercing needles they allegedly poked under his toenails before ripping them off with pliers. The medical team literally poked and prodded the girls while they were in trances, seeing if physical pain could wake them. It was as if someone had poked a hole in a dam, and all the water that was built up behind the wall was suddenly able to squirt out through that tiny opening. She poked along with her cane, scanning the grass for chipmunk holes. She poked my stomach and I stuck my tongue out at her and sighed. I can vaguely remember some of the comments made by Mr Kirk at the time towards the kinds of professional stickybeaks who poked their noses into things he was doing. It is poked repeatedly with a stick until it is absolutely livid. The chimney made of fieldstone poked up from the slate roof. We poked it with a stick and established that the wasps had moved out. It only seemed like I had been asleep for two minutes when I was poked at and I nearly jumped out of my skin before I realized our car ride was over. Show More Sentences After a while I rose and poked a few more sticks into the fire. Then someone poked at the fire and it flared up, illuminating the room. Small bits of dark brown hair poked out from underneath his hat. Tufts of springy white hair poked up from the center of the crown. Dark brown hair poked out around the edge of his white baseball cap. The driver, a portly man of medium height and an officer, taller and slim, talked as the sunlight poked through the clouds, shielding their eyes from its glare. There was this tiny hole in the gib and she poked her nose out. In a totally unscientific test I poked myself with an 18 gauge needle. He halfheartedly poked the control pad, which lit up electric blue. Writers unmercifully poked fun at the mass-produced Civil War statues on their nearly identical plinths, or World War I doughboys standing awkwardly in town squares. Tom poked at the edge of the fire with a piece of driftwood. I poked my head out of my satin sheets and stared droopily on as my maid, Bridget, opened the curtains to reveal the New York skyline winking at me in the morning sun. He fired over a low cross which was poked goalwards but the rebound came out to Novak who turned it home from inside the six yard area. When they killed off a certain population of nociceptor neurons, the mice stopped responding to being poked, but still responded to heat. Mechanically tenderized steaks have been poked by tiny blades or needles to make them more tender. Joe Burns poked a full toss back at Rashid after putting on 76 with Warner. That is the sort of thing your mother used to say when you poked yourself or got hit by a linedrive or gave yourself pinkeye. I clenched my pipe in my right fist and poked at the dottle busily with various fingers, first one then another, of my left hand. I accidentally poked my finger right through the old fabric. The video would show either just the hand, the hand being pricked by a needle or being poked with a cotton bud. Show More Sentences A Myrish crossbowman poked his head out a different window, got off a bolt, and ducked down to rewind. Hey, watch where you're throwing that thing! You could've poked Jeff's eye out. In came the fellow, bowing and scraping, his hat poked out before him with both his hands. As they gazed, a white face, wet with the sweat of fear, poked out and stared down upon them with eyes in which the late terror still lived. A big round grey rock, like the upper half of an egg, poked out of the water about a mile from the stony headland. Like young monkeys, apes, or humans, they poked and pried inquisitively at anything that seemed pokable or priable. This illustrates the order in which bytes are poked into memory with the pling operator. He then swiftly transferred me to the 'big' hospital, where I was prodded and poked and biopsied and left to wait while a little sliver of my flesh was tested. She found her hands crushed under the coiled cords and she poked her fingers between two, watching them grow red and then purple as overripe vineberries. After a few minutes they reached a path into the forest, a mixture of gum trees and other scrabbly ones, with funny pointed cones that poked out at odd angles. The opener came from a Jarvis ball which struck Aleksandar Kolarov en route to a lively round of pinball between City players before it was poked in by Milijas. We sprankled water on the clothes to damp'm 'em down to make 'em easier to am an'en rolled 'em up and poked 'em down in a piller slip to keep,em damp. Examples from Classical Literature I stood there beside Auerbach, and we both poked at the cylinders some more. Number one swung lourdily her midwife's bag, the other's gamp poked in the beach. On, on, until now the gelding had poked his nose past the filly's flying hocks. He rose then, and attentively poked in a small saucepan on the hob with a fork. The sleepy-eyed dionaea poked her head above the covers at the sound of their entry. Aguirre poked mild fun at the childish fears of the aged fellow, whereupon Zabulon intervened with his darkly energetic authority. Finally, he poked the activator bar, and watched as the machine spat out tape. He poked the needle of the syrette into the sufferer's forearm and squeezed the tube. Punin at the word 'oppressors' pointed to the seignorial abode, and then poked the driver in the back. And chouse poked and scratched and dug up the earth, but not a kitten did he find. He grabbed a handful of shirt on the first torpedo and poked his face down. With his stick, he poked at the mechanician, gestured with it, indicating a harbour. I absently poked it up with a paper-knife, and then found that it was a pawn-ticket from attenborough for 120 upon diamonds. He fumbled with loose, uncoordinated fingers at his head and Bart grabbed at him before he poked a claw in his eye. He put a small object in the ejector tube, poked it to proper seating, and settled himself comfortably, again. They poked under the beds with ribby's umbrella, and they rummaged in cupboards. Mrs. warrener leaned on the fence watching the gentleman, who poked about in the grass with his cane. Ossian poked his long nose into her calf, and that gave her a little comfort. Tom poked about amongst the passages, and pretty soon ducked under a wall where you wouldn't a noticed that there was a hole. I meekly fished it out of the index finger of my glove and poked it in the box. Show More Sentences It seems that I have poked my head into every bear trap in the kingdom. She picked at her caviar and blini glumly and poked at her computer. She vacantly hummed a fantastic tune as she poked at the wood embers on the hearth and munched a cracker. He stroked the cat, poked the fire, had his lunch served to him there. There was a pattering noise and an old woman rat poked her head round a rafter. Suddenly, he poked his head down to the very bottom of this cavity. Or I poked people in the back with the frames while I was clamping them. We took out the damper and poked out all the soot and ashes. A finger poked through it, and it broke away in rustling flakes of ashy rottenness. She poked the truth at them edgeways, the truth that is, as she saw it. We poked sceptically for a while amongst the bushes, peered without conviction into a ditch or two. I cried, hurriedly, as I poked at the somnolent wretch with my cane. The constable poked his head in and said, Well, Ill be jiggered! When we arrived in the marsh, tussocks of cordgrass and black need-lerush poked up here and there from the glassy water. Loveland poked the fire from beneath and then sighed helplessly. Hilary straightened sharply, poked his finger at the midriff of the giant. He leaned far over and poked his finger into a muffled form. Then the dog shut his eyes tight, poked his nose straight up in the air and sniffed hard with his mouth half-open. Tommy laughed and poked Harriet in the ribs with her racquet. Becoming immediately sensible of the impropriety, he poked the fire, and extinguished the last frail spark for ever. Show More Sentences The lobster was a scarlet mystery to her, but she hammered and poked till it was unshelled and its meager proportions concealed in a grove of lettuce leaves. So Mowgli stretched himself in some long, clean grass at the edge of the field, but before he had closed his eyes a soft gray nose poked him under the chin. Also, he had once nearly had an eye poked out by a toddling papoose. Katy Perry has poked fun at her Sesame Street video ban by wearing a very low-cut top with Elmo's face on it during an appearance on US show Saturday Night Live. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of poked? Words that rhyme with poked What is the adjective for poked? What is the noun for poked? Translations for poked Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words pokeberry poke Pokanoket poitou Poitiers Poisson poke fun at poke holes in pokemon Pokemon poker poker face 5-letter Words Starting With p po pok poke