How To Use Poke fun In A Sentence
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Again and again these feminist lexicographers refuse and indeed poke fun at the authoritative pronouncements of mainstream lexicography.
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Her novels poke fun at the upper class.
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Don't poke fun at me.
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OK, it's easy to poke fun.
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Loyalty, patriotism, the old school tie these were all things at which we loved, in our superior way, to poke fun.
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It's one thing to poke fun at a badly rendered tattoo, but quite another to say that it is stupid to tattoo, pierce, or scarify your body.
Keeping it Reeled In: Hope or Delusion?
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Esprit de l'escalier it may've been, but I found myself, days later, wondering why exactly it was that we should feel at all shamefaced about our singular collective ability to guy, to poke fun, to take the piss and otherwise generally excoriate.
Rude Britannia: British Comic Art, at Tate Britain
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Set on Labor Day weekend in 1988, it seems content to poke fun at the clothes -- a cross between early MTV and Miami Vice (which was conceived as "MTV cops") -- and to package some of the more listenable (if inconsequential) music of the era around a joke-challenged romantic story.
Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Take Me Home Tonight
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So is it any different when a short Leroy Anderson piece that parodies or tries to pay homage to a dance form like the saraband, is that any different, really, than Mozart and would poke fun at the form, or Brahms, or Schubert, or Mahler?
Leroy Anderson: Master of the Miniature
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All his business partners poke fun of him behind his back.
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Dongpo and Fo Yin were good friends, and they liked to poke fun at each other.
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We all poke fun at her because she wears such a strange hat.
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Old Trafford was not the place of brooding discontent that might have been anticipated and the chants of "Thursday night, Channel Five" emanating from the Stretford End at least demonstrated that English football's most spoiled crowd of the past 20 years still have the ability to poke fun at themselves.
Sir Alex Ferguson rounds on critics as Manchester United beat Wolves
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You shouldn't poke fun at him just because he cannot ride a bicycle.
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In fact, one of his most endearing qualities was his ability to puncture his own pomposity and poke fun at himself.
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I was even afraid lest any-one poke fun at me.
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Esprit de l'escalier it may've been, but I found myself, days later, wondering why exactly it was that we should feel at all shamefaced about our singular collective ability to guy, to poke fun, to take the piss and otherwise generally excoriate.
Rude Britannia: British Comic Art, at Tate Britain
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A pair of suitcases filled with special shower heads for Islamic ablutions , and monumental razors and clippers, poke fun at the needs of the Muslim traveler.
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Her novels poke fun at the upper class.
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They poke fun at subjects - their films include gags about disabilities, among other things - while seeming to avoid cruelty.
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Her novels poke fun at the upper class.
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I can’t think of them off the top of my head, but there have been a couple that I have read that purposely poke fun to add humor to the book, and it doesn’t retract from the story at all.
Are the Best Biographies Sympathetic to Their Subjects? (Quote of the Day / Allen Massie) « One-Minute Book Reviews
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Some are genuinely funny, and Dante does poke fun at the paint-by-numbers approach of many contemporary films.
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I have also taken the opportunity to poke fun at my reactions.
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My friends poke fun at me by calling me a bully.
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I'd hate to have someone poke fun at my Buddy Holly museum in Antietam.
Elvis Gets a Gettysburg Address
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Newspapers started to defy the strict censorship imposed during the coup and to poke fun at Mr Serrano.
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While some of these images are serious, others poke fun at this period's overblown piousness.
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His retelling of ancient stories that poke fun at our society is devilishly clever.
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It's time you scrapped your overwritten early loves and learned to poke fun at the real thing.
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He was going to be the one true "seer" -- poke fun at the soft underbelly of politics, keeping us smiling and "in the know" -- the "shysters" wouldn't stand a chance with Jon Stewart on guard!
Mike Hegedus: Jon, You're Wrong. It is a Game, and You're a Player!
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Undoubtedly, there are those who will probably dismiss Adaptation as a load of self-indulgent tosh, or as a smug and overly-clever attempt to poke fun at just about everything.
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He is also utterly charming, happy to poke fun at himself, and adept at sidestepping questions he doesn't want to answer.
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The ads poke fun at the problem parents, not at the ones who behave properly at their kids' games.
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A pair of suitcases filled with special shower heads for Islamic ablutions , and monumental razors and clippers, poke fun at the needs of the Muslim traveler.
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So what if journalists poke fun at its more superficial aspects - the cut of the suits, the pallor of the skin, the stains on the shirts?
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When people poke fun at me for my big nose, I just laugh.
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Newspapers started to defy the strict censorship imposed during the coup and to poke fun at Mr Serrano.
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A whole category of jokes has been created to poke fun at Microsoft and its operating system, Windows 95.
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Sorry, Clinton only switched running mates for the evening to poke fun at Republican rival George Bush.
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In a truly democratic fashion, she encouraged comments from the gathering, all the time trying to poke fun at everything, and causing titters, chuckles and guffaws to break out intermittently.
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Her novels poke fun at the upper class.
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The long-running late-night chat shows with David Letterman (CBS) and Jay Leno (NBC) went on to poke fun at politicians routinely, even inviting them on to the shows in a kind of joust to test how much good humour they can muster in the face of the host's jabs.
Adrian Monck
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Manning has dared to dress up before, donning wigs and mustaches to poke fun at himself.
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OK, it's easy to poke fun.
