pokey

Example Sentences

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Give me your losers and laggards, your pokey puppies who limbo right under rock-bottom expectations and then have to go home and lie down.

From New York Times • May 18, 2024

Family and adult-only fun include roller disco night and open skate hours with the hokey pokey, limbo and partner skate events.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 12, 2023

While Proud Boys yelled and shoved outside the entrance, the children inside Loyalty Bookstores laughed, did the hokey pokey and danced as drag queen Charlemagne Chateau, dressed as a princess, read stories, they said.

From Washington Post • Feb. 21, 2023

After Pickford died, in 1979, it sat unsold, too small and pokey for modern celebrities.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2022

The banker throws the poor old widder in the pokey.

From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck