poking

How To Use poking In A Sentence

• With a lot of prodding and poking and pushing and cajoling, it set off with a spasmodic jerk.
• Bones were snapped, skin was torn, and arrows were poking through chests and backs - black arrows.
• Ben watched her as she worked, wisps of her hair falling about her face and her tongue just visibly poking out of the corner of her mouth as she concentrated.
• I spent Sunday afternoon poking around an old bookshop.
• Obviously not a fake turtleneck (aka a dickey) as it can be seen poking out a shirtsleeve, The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
• You haven't been this pale since, like, February, she says, poking a little fun at the difficulty I seem to have in maintaining any kind of darker pigmentary coloration in the winter. Things You Can Do, Some Can't Be Done
• He has a salt-and-pepper mustache, a dab of hair under his lower lip, and a glasses case poking out of his left chest pocket.
• The opening scene is an interview - about the wretchedness of conditions in the theatre, poking fun at the cumbersome bureaucracy which soils it.
• Just inside the gates, an overalled gardener with a gentle face is poking insincerely at the dripping rhododendrons with a pair of secateurs.
• One particularly macabre statue of Saint Sebastian, arrows poking out of every limb, was given centre stage.