poke along
Example Sentences
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Let’s try one question: Is it right for bicyclists to cut to the head of a line of cars at a stoplight, then poke along, impeding traffic?
From Washington Post • Oct. 15, 2019
For now, we poke along on the ancient Big Spruce double, eyeing fresh lines tucked into the folds of the broad slope below.
From Time Magazine Archive
When the light turns green, they’ll poke along at a snail’s pace, holding up traffic while motorists wait for a chance to pass.
From Washington Post
In Nevada, where the roads are mostly flat, straight and empty, drivers never did like to poke along.
From Time Magazine Archive
The narrative extends no thread which you may take in one hand as you poke along: it frequently disappears altogether, and it seems as if you had another book with its vocabulary and style.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 63, January, 1863 by Various
