poke
Example Sentences
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“The regime continues to poke and prod, looking for a soft underbelly,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026
What is just as bad, in her view, are those dog walkers who do pick up after their dogs but then just poke the bags into the wall to avoid carrying them.
From BBC • Apr. 6, 2026
The defense attorneys sought to poke holes in the accusers’ testimony.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 9, 2026
Aedes aegypti zero in on humans and tend to poke multiples times before taking blood.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2026
He’d poke me in the shoulder and say those same words I’d fed to him whenever he’d get sick of his shots missing the basket.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
Vocabulary lists containing poke
Because of Winn-Dixie
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Cormac McCarthy's "The Road"
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"On the Menu" and "Find the Adaptations"
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