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
They poke along in unpressurized DC-45 at 8,000 ft., doing 220 to 240 m.p.h. v.
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
If not, I shall poke along the best I can and try to drown my grief in more copious drafts of work.
From Reveries of a Schoolmaster by Pearson, Francis B.
