How To Use Pokey In A Sentence
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Given the financial commitment involved, it's important to get it right - it could mean the difference between a pokey hothouse or a cold, dark space and a bright, year-round sunroom.
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I defy anyone to find the actual hokey-pokey in that sequence.
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‘I could have worked in the City, you know,’ he will tell them as he makes his way to the same pokey office he's been in for 20 years.
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In an effort not to crush them and/or avoid severe plastic pokey bit perforation of your foot, you will twist one way or the other and thus wrench your ankle.
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Here, the worst incident of road rage is Roddy Murray flashing his brights at a pokey weekend driver.
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If the woman falsely counterclaimed rape, then, based on the viciousness with which sex criminals are routinely treated, I think 12 years in the pokey is quite right, possibly even on the overly lenient side.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Female Teacher’s Having Sex with 17-Year-Old Male Student/Teacher’s Aide = 12 Years in Prison (But Was More Involved?)
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Now you can abandon your pokey, slow analog modem and step up to DSL's blazing access speeds.
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Sorry, I've never actually used the word 'pokey' in a blog post.
What's Your Excuse?
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What more can you say about a gangsta rap superstar who spits, deadpan: ‘Hokey pokey dopey lokey okey dokey’?
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At that moment, Daniel pulled into a small pokey café with petrol on the side of the motorway and made the bike bring to a standstill.
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Interestingly, in late - 19 th-century Britain, hokey-pokey men were Italian street vendors selling ice-cream wrapped in waxed paper.
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In some areas this would solidify and subsequently be mined as pig treacle, or hokey-pokey, great sticky seams in the rock, but your real prospector would surely comb the wilderness for signs of the true liquid gold.
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Toshiba's new model SDR1002 reads CDs at only 24X and records both write-once and rewritable media at what is nowadays a rather pokey 4X speed.
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The present study shows that sequence divergence within a lineage of Pokey is extremely low even across very broad geographic areas.
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There was a pokey borlotti bean mousse to start and warm mince pies to finish, and the general thrum and roll of happy waiting staff doing what they do best.
Restaurant review: Albert's Table
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He's originally a guitarist, not a DJ, so he doesn't claim to be a master of beats - even if his midtempo breaks are remarkably satisfying, neither trip hop pokey nor hardcore headachy.
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The regulator and his staff operate from the third floor of a rather pokey building that resembles a cheap hotel.
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So this Saturday, April 16, is your chance to ditch your slow, pokey and unused technology.
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Although I moaned, my bedsit was palatial compared with those of most of my friends, who lived in pokey, badly partitioned flats in Rathmines.
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They are untrustworthy, always keen to assure buyers there is "a lot of interest" in some pokey basement, while at the same time telling sellers that a mingy offer is the best they will get.
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Hurry up or I'll ask the sheriff to take you guys to the pokey.
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I was transfixed by the sumptuous food, all new tastes and textures, sprinkled with this magical green stuff that was fresh, pungent and pokey all at the same time.
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Even though the threat of spending 30 years in the pokey will be a powerful incentive for Libby to cut some kind of deal that might include turning on his boss, the possibility of the additional charges of revealing classified information, particularly against Cheney, is even more powerful since, presumably, Cheney does’t appear to be at risk of a truth-telling-related indictment.
Balloon Juice » 2005 » October
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That Your Majesty was "pokey" and that she didn't intend to stay there any longer.
The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays
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I sincerely hope he sorts himself out whilst he is in pokey!
Terrorism is the new Rock ‘n’ Roll. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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They took him down to the pokey for a couple of days, Mark was supposed to take some anger management classes in exchange for time served.
KISSCUT
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As she approaches the prospect of spending a bit of time in the federal pokey for her conviction in that insider stock-dumping scheme, she already has a plan to lighten her jail term.
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As far as they are concerned, it is merely a piece of land to be exploited for cheaply constructed, almost prefabricated units, with pokey living quarters.
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Now, if you want to get all the critical updates, but have a pokey old dialup connection, Microsoft wants to give you a CD shipped free of charge.
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Paris is in the pokey, which is just a lot of fun to say.
CNN Transcript Jun 4, 2007
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And I didn't want to go to the pokey for - well, never you mind what I could go to the pokey for.
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By convention's end, about 1,800 protesters had passed through the temporary pokey at Pier 57.
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Determined not to be ‘treated like a piece of bookstore trade,’ one of these drama boys almost turns a semi-innocent trip to the sauna into in a trip to the pokey for one of them.
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Looking pink and refreshed after a short break, Mr Smith strode into the pokey committee rooms to a rabble-rousing welcome.
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I've led a hokey-pokey circle around City Hall in protest of New York's dance laws, attended a death metal festival dressed as a member of the Christian hair metal band, Stryper, and lay in a hospital bed on death's door because of lack of health insurance.
Rev Jen: Why 'Elf Girl' is Extremely Important
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I could have ended up in the pokey for questioning.
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`Tell me, hokey pokey," he said to Maria, `what is that language you speak with your Mama?
THE GOLDEN LION
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With that much memory available there would be little reason for programs to constantly access that pokey old hard drive: Savvy apps could load just about everything into memory.
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At 12:01 a.m. on October 21, 2004, New York batsman Rubén Sierra hit a routine groundball to second baseman Pokey Reese, who threw to first baseman Doug Mientkiewicz for the final putout of a dominant 10-3 victory.
One Season
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The place is small and pokey, with cramped rooms and straight, narrow pathways.
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But let a bad word creep into a school principal's vocabulary, and he'll go straight to the pokey.
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The province of Saskatchewan has in its code of laws no recourse for punishment of non-payment of fines other than to toss the offender into the pokey.
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Looks kind of pokey, doesn't it?" said Allery Jones.
Peak and Prairie From a Colorado Sketch-book
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One year it's living in Malibu, the next year, it's being in plays in pokey theatres in London.
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Let Andrea Mitchell make fun of her hokey-pokey ways – it just endears her to that crowd ever more.
Matthew Yglesias » 71 Percent of Americans, Including 52 Percent of Republicans Are Liberal Elitists
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The pokey pub seemed to contain almost the whole of the village.
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The dude with the little head takes you into a pokey room with a bunch of weird looking gadgets and a plethora of indecipherable charts and tables on the wall.
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It's the only hospital with a built-in bar, but surely having some kind of entertainment that doesn't involve game shows and the weekly hokey-pokey is a good idea whose time has come.
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And then Zeek looked at me with his lovely lagoon eyes, and just as I was about to accept, I remembered that the only dance I could dance was the hokey-pokey.
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Try dancing with your children. Do the Hokey Pokey, the bunny hop and such.
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I followed, silent and obedient, as she took us to a pokey shop in a dead end.
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No, there is no law that will send you to the pokey if you break this guideline however, this is a rule that most follow and is a recommended guideline so you don't appear too pushy.
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You know our little nuthatch guy was more of a pokey sort, yes.
I, Trampoline
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The pokey bull calves of dairy cows are slaughtered at 16 to 18 weeks for veal.
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In Armstrong's case, his identity thief plead guilty to a laundry list of charges and is slated to spend just five years in the pokey.
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Given the financial commitment involved, it's important to get it right - it could mean the difference between a pokey hothouse or a cold, dark space and a bright, year-round sunroom.
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At 12:01 a.m. on October 21, 2004, New York batsman Rubén Sierra hit a routine groundball to second baseman Pokey Reese, who threw to first baseman Doug Mientkiewicz for the final putout of a dominant 10-3 victory.
One Season
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Having worked to learn fluent French - surely passing ones time in the pokey by learning a second language and earning a BA counts as some form of rehabilitation?
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Let's invite our friends to a barbie, drink beer, eat hokey-pokey and pavlova, or have a game of rugby on the beach in our swannies and jandals.
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Such is life in the big house, the joint, or the pokey.
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We learn the hokey pokey when we're kids and as we become adults, we learn the latest crazes.
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They sell hokey-pokey, either plain or covered in chocolate.
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He limps around, bouncing, kicking, giving it a bit of a hokey-pokey shake here and there.
Angry Young Man
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If you have an older PC, then a slower processor and pokey system components may cause a bottleneck, and you won't get the graphics performance for which you overpaid.
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I dropped back down on my bed and patted down some pokey ends of loose fluff and feather down idly, and heard the door open.
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We don't need a new law; we need to find the executives who did this and throw them in the pokey for a long time.
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No one of any significance has spent any time in the pokey.
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The Powerpuff Girls must face their nemeses the Gangrene Gang when the teenaged baddies are sent back to school at Pokey Oaks Kindergarten.
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He's resolute about going to the pokey or the grave fighting for the little people.
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Check your local obscenity ordinances before you do this one or you could land up in the pokey.
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The cottages had either been too small with pokey rooms and low ceilings or too small with too high a price and outbuildings beyond repair.
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Apple CEO Steve Jobs doesn't think much of any kind of Flash and has said it's too pokey, which is why it's not on the thing.
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Such is life in the big house, the joint, or the pokey.
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I'm the typical American white guy, so watching me dance is like seeing the Pillsbury Doughboy doing the hokey-pokey.
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Once free they did what escaped prisoners do: Swiped a pickup truck, cavorted on the outside for a while, then got hauled back into the pokey.
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Nobody wanted to eat, nobody wanted to do the hokey-pokey.
Margaret Cho: When I Think of November
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Hokey pokey ice cream is one of the most popular treats in New Zealand, evoking memories of childhood trips to the beach.
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Case dismissed, and the prosecutor gets to spend the night in the pokey for charging against the film.
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My friend made hokey pokey ice cream for a lunch party.
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It seemed a laughable charge, but the judge was upset, saying Emery was arrogant and flouting the law - which he clearly was - and gave him 92 days in the pokey.
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So I followed the troops, got soaked on the way and eventually located a rather pokey meeting room where the government's great and good were already gathered.
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I must confess I didn't realise it had been renovated - and I'd been avoiding it because in its previous incarnation, it was a slightly pokey cafeteria.
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The word "pokey" cannot be found in the dictionary.
The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays
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12: 48 OJ Simpson gets 15 years in pokey and Knight Rider's been cut back to 17 episodes.
My God, It's Full Of Tweets!
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Pokey (pok), a sex-linked recessive semi-lethal gene in Tribolium castaneum has been described.
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January 9, 2008 at 7:01 am dus I do teh macarena or teh hokey pokey?
Invisible volleyball serve - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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You'd expect high prices like that in uptown nightclubs, not in a pokey little indie pub.
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We reflect on my impending visit to the pokey over a fry-up.
