poky
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In a world of cautious Catalans and poky Petroffs, the King’s Gambit can guarantee an interesting outing.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 17, 2023
Almost all runners, whether veterans or newcomers, poky or fleet, youthful or antique, share one bond.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 19, 2022
Sometimes you cut your finger on a poky throne.
From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2022
Newsom and the Legislature should agree on a plan this summer — something more like the State Water Project than the poky bullet train.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2021
Her face had gone so white, the freckles stood out like tiny brown poky dots.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
True, one wall was mirrored, but it fooled no eyes, and the small dark stage and square of parquet dance floor made the space feel even pokier.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 16, 2022
The Force Awakens is being seen at weird, sic-fi-like times of the day – 3am! 5am! – in as many as eight screens per multiplex, forcing other movies into split screenings and smaller, pokier rooms.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 22, 2015
If Palin has shrewdly anticipated the Tea Party's rise, the mechanics of her operation are a little pokier.
From Time ● Dec. 9, 2010
Mostly, though, the gizmo felt like a twist on the Kindle formula, not a departure from it — and while it may have been fancier, it was also pokier and glitchier.
From Time ● Nov. 23, 2010
Mother will be disappointed, and everything will be duller and pokier than ever...”
From The Fortunes of the Farrells by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.
Natives of Fife and British Columbia respectively, they are musicians familiar with wide open spaces who are also capable of sounding as if their work was spawned from the world's pokiest garage.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 29, 2010
These stadiums are small by American standards: The Gtech, home to Brentford FC and the pokiest of all, holds just over 17,000 fans, most of them season-ticket holders.
From Washington Post
The kinks are there but the pace is lethargic, as if the film were moving on Detroit's pokiest assembly line.
From Time Magazine Archive
In this, her opening show, she returns to what must be the pokiest spot in the prairies, where the chief attraction is an indoor mall with an outdoor escalator.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Of all the mean things that ever was the pokiest long time in unwrapping its wings, this butterfly's the meanest."
From Ting-a-ling by Stockton, Frank Richard
