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.
He resumed poking at his meat with his fork.
There he stood before a figure with a long black robe and frizzled, unkempt white hair poking out at odd angles from beneath a black hat.
A dibble was an instrument for poking holes in the ground for planting.
She's always poking fun at herself.
No one has named me tsarina yet, which is undoubtedly a relief to the companies that don't want workers poking into their policies on 401 (k) s. Burned!
Harel heard her sigh and looked at her poking her food on the fine china plate with the silver cutlery.
Last night I built the first fire I've kindled in years and it came back to me, that instinctual pull of watching the flames catch, of stirring the embers, and poking the logs until they burn brightly.
I see outlets that make fun of furries in manners that range from gentle fun-poking to outright malice.
We cut to the next scene, where he is now under a large mound of sand, now with only the top of his head visible, poking through the side of the mound.
‘That's nothing,’ cut in Darryl happily, cheerfully poking his brother with his fork.
It's resistive, meaning that poking the screen's surface presses down the layer beneath and registers your touch. Crave at CNET UK
These highlands have a story to tell, one illustrated by railroad ties, horseshoes, and rusty scraps of metal - as well as big-tooth aspen and red spruce saplings poking through the snow.
From then on, it was a matter of watching the fire, poking in more sticks as the embers burnt low. Times, Sunday Times
The cup seams can be cut out and used to sew over the poking underwire part.
An army bomb squad was scrambled to dispose of an unexploded mortar shell found poking out of a rabbit hole on Easter Sunday.
The traveller is shown poking his head and right arm through a boundary of stars enclosing this everyday world and reaching out to a universe of wonders beyond.
While Hannah was using a blanket to swat out flames on the ladder below the top of the cupola — waving away helpful servitors and even a voynix that had come in close to protect the humans from harm — Harman and two others had finished poking inside the fiery furnace and had just opened a “taphole,” allowing what looked to be yellow lava to flow down wooden troughs to the beach. Ilium
Not her national monument I told her, and she shouldn't come poking her nose in where it wasn't wanted.
One man is rather grey and grizzled, with whiskers poking quite a way out of his brow.
The two were both horribly bad at the game, but had had fun laughing and poking fun at each other about it.
Around the back, you'll find a deeper bumper with a chromed tailpipe poking through off-centre, a boot spoiler and some discreet badging.
Scientists have observed a dolphin trying to get a reluctant moray eel to come out of its crevice by poking it with the spiny body of a dead scorpionfish.
It was just poking out of the ground and I saw it glint in the light. The Sun
I perch happily on a stool, poking gleefully at a small aquarium with a few brightly colored fish in it.
The last thing they want is some disgraced politician poking round their homes, violating their privacy.
Visitors looking eastward can gaze upon the dead trees poking from beneath the surface of Earthquake Lake, the lake that formed behind the rockslide.
The colour rose in her cheeks, reddening even her ears poking through her blonde hair.
Personally, I use Arch.) +1 Windows (For Win7, I've been poking around with it, and it's really easy to get the hang of.) +0 OSX (The built in dock is nice, but that universal option bar is a pain in the ass.), The Problems With A Hackintosh Netbook, Six Months Out | Lifehacker Australia
Before long heads began poking above the water's surface, and eventually big critters with blackish shells and spraddled legs began pulling themselves onto shore.
We must have walked for about an hour, and were on the point of turning round and returning to the caravan, when we spotted a stick poking out of the water, about twenty yards offshore.
I gave my kidneys and other vitals a good poking also.
It's there in the lyrics of Christina Aguilera, the styling of Britney Spears and even the poses of mannequins in Madame Tussaud's (where a waxwork of Kylie Minogue depicts her on all fours with her bottom poking into the air).
He'd be staggering and falling over and sometimes there was a gang of kids following and poking fun and laughing.
I assume that we'll be going in, but instead he crosses towards the sea loch, and there below the road, poking out of an old dry-stone wall, is a cluster of chanterelles.
They are very cute, and with so many people poking their fingers through the cage all day long are already tame and welcome a tickle.
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme satirizes attempts at social climbing, poking fun both at the vulgar, pretentious middle-class and the vain, snobbish aristocracy. Capsule Summaries of the Great Books of the Western World
At her direction, two of the larger menservants each seized an end of the blanket under Jamie and transferred it smoothly, contents and all, to the camp bed, now set up before the fire, where another servant was industriously poking the night-banked coals and feeding the growing blaze. Sick Cycle Carousel
Poppa had a glass prod inside the tank, poking at her and recording her ferocity.
The washing machine wasn't draining, and, in desperation I lay my head down on the dasher inside what the kids call the 'chugger' to bemoan my fate before looking for a free washer on craigslist when I noticed a bit of metal poking down. Duct Tape
Poking through chain link fences at factories and construction sites.
Her fang teeth were starting to extend, poking down so they just visible in her open mouth, and her hands gripped the arms of the chair.
‘We use it to decide what to do as far as poking holes in the ground,’ says Davis.
I had to share a plate with a young mother who had a small boy, with dirty fingers poking into the food.
He is skeletal and scrawny with his minuscule bones poking through his clothes.
We don't want other people poking into our artistic pie. Times, Sunday Times
Chaucer's habit of poking fun at pardoners and summoners is not so much an example of impiety as a way of demonstrating how much virtue he has to spare.
He kept the car in the slow lane, poking along at about 40 miles an hour.
What we're poking fun at is the kind of people who take a symbol and worship that, which is what happens when people worship celebrity.
Its complexity pulls the viewer around it to notice the edges of the raw clay poking through the luscious gloss of its dark celadon glaze.
She broke a twig from a nearby tree and began poking it into the soft ground in a desperate effort to busy herself.
Episodes over the past year include Mourinho poking a Barcelona coach in the eye, a sending-off for Pepe in last season's Champions League semi-final, extraordinary outbursts from both managers and allegations of racism, dirty tricks and diving. Real Madrid's Pepe sparks controversy for stamp against Barcelona
One of the MPs, a big redneck shitkicker, began poking one of my guys, a black soldier named Mickey Washington, with his baton, taunting him about being a lifer in the army. Dancing with the Devil
With such visible history, the sun-blackened ruins poking out from the undergrowth and overgrowth, Nevis is fun to explore.
Then I went back to the clearing, where Solastian was absently poking at the fire and completely oblivious to everything else.
Scientists have observed a dolphin trying to get a reluctant moray eel to come out of its crevice by poking it with the spiny body of a dead scorpionfish.
One particularly macabre statue of Saint Sebastian, arrows poking out of every limb, was given centre stage.
Another loach buzzed in to do a battle-damage assessment, poking around a bit until he amazingly took some scattered fire. Again to Carthage
Two small boys trapped a crab, repeatedly poking it with a stick until it went belly up and played dead.
In consequence, he was entirely too occupied with his own difficulties to notice the gossamer shape poking its head above the gunwales of the ersatz pirate ship suspended above the gambling floor to the left of the pinball arcade.
He spent much time poking around bomb sites during the 1970s and came across some surprising remnants of old London. Times, Sunday Times
She tries poking them with a stick to get them down and then throwing a rock.
Mother's dedfully good," said Baby, poking up his face from her knee where he had again perched himself, to kiss her. The Adventures of Herr Baby
My father's short reddish brown hair was poking out from beneath his hat, and my mother's dark hair wasn't far from being out of order as well.
It was just poking out of the ground and I saw it glint in the light. The Sun
We find ourselves taming small shrubs of wildflowers, billy buttons, gumnuts and orchids and arranging them poking out of a foam brick.
For as long as there has been a publishing industry, there have been used books, that supposedly quaint world of polymaths and antiquarians poking about musty, cluttered stores for titles few readers would know.
The baby proceeded to explore Nicholas, poking his face and tugging on his hair, giggling the entire time.
The Comedy is the story of a man poking at his necrotic self, trying to find the pink bits. Heather Donahue: Sundance 2012: The Comedy
Or perhaps, twisted, tangled strands of rebar poking through piles of concrete rubble in the demolished remains of a hotel or a factory.
He stood outside the brewery, with a beer raised to his lips, the downtown skyline poking the cloudless distance behind him.
He had a dream that some children were poking a bee's nest with a stick and that the bees swarmed out and stung his whole body.
Taking a break from his sermonising trilogy on American values, The Boss of It All finds Lars Von Trier in amiable and comedic mood, spinning out a plot that explores several of his favourite hobbyhorses: following individuals attempting to escape from reason, poking fun at group dynamics, and deflating actors 'egos. GreenCine Daily: Fests and events, 10/23.
Ted Nugent denied both poking his erect *enis through a map of West Virginia and urinating on a nun. Firedoglake » And the Band Played On…
Am I ever going to mend this pile of bras in which the underwire has come poking out?
I thought about the massive department store that sat underneath like it like some kind of consumeristic rhinoceros, with only its horns poking up through the turf. Gan_bei: I'm trying to concentrate on writing, bu
Anytime they post and insult, and then respond to someone poking fun at them by calling the person infantile, is too good a chance to pass up. Think Progress » Bush Responds To Snow Criticism: ‘You Should Have Seen What [He] Said About The Other Guy’
We thought that would be a better way to ring in the season than, say, crabbedly poking at a deck, angry and alone.
As Nina rightly says, there is nothing natural, but nevertheless there are biotic defaults, and there is nothing more biologistic than poking bits of yourself into holes or rubbing bits of yourself until they are sick.
There were four large sliding doors in the house and beyond them a shrine. I used to be scolded for poking holes in the sliding doors.
It was exciting stuff, and two minutes later Kanoute bustled his way through before poking the ball wide to Cole.
Two kids were poking a stick into the drain.
She again sat beside the fire, poking at its dead embers with a fallen green tree branch.
It ran its ‘When I Grow Up’ Super Bowl television commercial, poking fun at the unpleasantries of corporate culture.
Socket guards stop children receiving electric shocks from poking objects into plug sockets.
‘For novices, I would say that the easiest way to form the wreath is by simply poking the clusters of greenery into the bound hay, newspaper or moss,’ says Elaine.
Alternatively, poke holes in the can and throw it out attached to a length of string - you'll need to retrieve it to keep poking more holes in it as the contents disappear.
I was thinking along the lines that the jerries were biting off more than they could chew, poking the soviets. Irritable Bear Returns – The Bleat.
The phrase puts me in mind of pub engravings, of rustics in waistcoats lying full-length in rowing boats, poking at ducks with long muskets.
In fact, the idea of listening to a bunch of pompous professionals congratulating themselves on their own erudition seems marginally less appealing than poking myself in the eye with a red-hot skewer.
Doing a little poking around this morning on the real estate websites of uberbrokers Corcoran and Douglas Elliman, we're chagrined to note that Ms. Rich may have a point.
And so were her perky boobies poking through a deliciously thin white top.
For those who are curious, the researchers blew up the eggshells by poking holes in the top and the bottom, emptying them of egg, and filling them with hydrogen gas instead.
Pausing, he scratched a tuft of vibrant red hair poking from beneath his cap.
Delia quickly caught their senile cat, Picasso, as he was poking his fat little head out.
I almost got a Thoreau book, but there was that sniggle of guilt poking me in the eye. Delayed Gratification « So Many Books
These reviews aren't interesting, they're not poking at anything much, they're comforters for the regular readers.
So when the poultice-walloper shook his head over Oliver, and glanced towards me, lying there all blood-spattered and pathetic, I was ready with a feeble gesture to keep him at a distance - the last thing I wanted was the little bugger poking at me and exclaiming: THE NUMBERS
I was poking about in the drawer, looking for the key, when I found this!
I spent two hours today poking and poking in order to resite her drip as we cannot find her veins because she is retaining fluid.
I yelled into the empty house, waiting for the meow and the poking of her little black head from around a door.
The shock of black hair poking from the top of his white OU visor was wet and mussed from a sideline celebration shower.
Two small boys trapped a crab, repeatedly poking it with a stick until it went belly up and played dead.
Legs and arms were poking and floating, defying laws of human biology and gravity. Times, Sunday Times
The first shows a skeleton with red and yellow snakeheads poking through its ribs: serpents representing his unhealed wounds, his addiction, and the malignant spirits which held him.
The first model swaggered out on to the catwalk with long curly hair wearing a dandyish red frock coat and hat with a jaunty feather poking from it – this seemed like a nod to the label's absent founder. John Galliano Menswear on the catwalk, while he is in court
Horses were poking their heads over their stall doors, and her favourite roan mare gave a welcoming nicker. HERE BE DRAGONS
We rode the subway out to the Bronx Zoo, and joined the hordes strolling around poking the animals with sticks.
Her abdomen was swollen, her six breasts had tumefied and turned pink, poking through her fur, sometimes leaking droplets of milk.
Policemen were poking among the ruins by the fence, shining hurricane lamps.
Even though it was still only late February some buds were already poking through the brown earth and the lawn looked as if it had just been laid from sod.
I skied on through, just nosy-poking, but no grooming over the skidder ruts. Pending business
I bought pie plates and string, grabbed a hammer and nail, and began poking holes and stringing pie plates.
The luderick are also poking about in their usual haunts.
The Kilo was moving at steerageway just barely below the surface of the ocean, her antenna poking up above the surface for a scheduled communications break with the team ashore. Arctic Fire
The dog was unhappy 'cause there were no "walkies", but I see the sun poking through this morning. Darlene's Digest
SYDNEY (Reuters) - An Australian swimmer survived a great white shark attack by poking the creature in the eyes as it dragged him through the water after badly savaging his left leg.
Bluebells and ‘lords and ladies’ are poking up, and overhead early morning pigeons cooed gently in the trees or cruised the valley.
I can recall how O looked as if it were yesterday: lying next to me, his shirt slightly undone, the top of his chest hair poking out, huge grin on his face.
I had no idea what I was doing; I had cornered the lion in her den, and now I was poking a stick at her.
One could go on poking holes, but the improbabilities are legion.
Legs and arms were poking and floating, defying laws of human biology and gravity. Times, Sunday Times
One or many of these sclerotia aka "ergots" may be found in any given rye head, where their little black nubs can be seen poking out of the head. Boing Boing
She is hostile to people who go poking into her private affairs.
After quietly poking around in 16 Army camps and indoctrination centers, the Senate Preparedness subcommittee this week concluded that the Armed Forces still have too many chairborne troops.
Instead of one that looks like a tortoise with its bonnet and wheels poking out from underneath a ridiculously swollen shell? Times, Sunday Times
Dick studied the rainforest form of Ceiba pentandra, a species of kapok that grows taller than a 16-story building, its head poking above the forest canopy.
Gabo, which is about poking and messing with a caveman using the touch screen, not make it past Apple's approval process, but id Software's Nazi shoot-a-thon The Escapist : Latest News
One of the best parts of this painting is a ghostly erection poking out of a vagina dentata, which is ejaculating a spermy ghost of Abraham Lincoln. BEAUTIFUL/DECAY MAGAZINE
Instead of one that looks like a tortoise with its bonnet and wheels poking out from underneath a ridiculously swollen shell? Times, Sunday Times
To steer drivers grasped a tiller poking out of the dash, starting the car involved cranking a handle by the driver's side.
A dibble was an instrument for poking holes in the ground for planting.
There was a big stick poking out of one of the trashcans.
The memoir, in a way, is my poking at the scar left by this self-inflicted wound. Jackson Katz: Fathers, Sons and Guns: An Interview With USC Sociologist and Author Michael Messner
At some point, while poking around on that server, he found an unprotected file containing encrypted passwords.
They were dreadful sleepers, but I'm sure that was because I was prodding and poking them all the time!
These protective garments are generally also festooned with wands of office: besmeared stethoscopes draped around the neck, clunky paging devices clipped to the belt, and an array of well chewed ballpoint pens poking forlornly from the breast and hip pockets. Cri de coeur
One had a large backwards blue cap on his head, messy black hair poking out from underneath.
He recently criticised the use of powhiri at official functions, saying "a half-naked man poking his tongue out" was not a civilised way to greet foreign dignitaries.
Ella looked at the tiny face poking out of the blanket.
Mr. Craven won 't permit you to wander or go poking about the house.
If you look closely, you can see some of the nails poking through the wood and it feels authentically gutsy.
Rachid, who trains the boxers, makes a great play of picking up the youngest lads, weighing them and poking them about before a bout begins.
I suspect that with the Space Needle poking into the sky nearby, architects know that nothing they designed could become the city's goofiest folly. Archive 2009-04-01
My eighth grade coach would have benched me for that much slapping, poking, and grabbing.
Legs and arms were poking and floating, defying laws of human biology and gravity. Times, Sunday Times
What if the tax man goes poking around? Times, Sunday Times
At some point, while poking around on that server, he found an unprotected file containing encrypted passwords.
Indeed, as Gould points out, the digital facsimiles of basic human activities "chatting," "befriending," even "poking" oftentimes seem poised to outmode the actual physical acts on which they were originally modeled! Harvard University Press Publicity Blog :
El Niño or not, it's springtime in the Northern Hemisphere and the tulips and daffodils are poking up around our toes.
Many of its features will be familiar to anybody versed in tagging, poking and defriending: People can post photos, link to friends and ping messages back and forth online. In Vietnam, State 'Friends' You
You are a pathetic little person who seeks nothing but attention and I enjoy poking your blubbery pale belly. Think Progress » Pentagon Shooter Was Right-Wing, Anti-Government Terrorist
The husband looked up from poking the washing machine with his screwdriver to suggest I was being obdurate.
Two squad cars marked Palo Alto police had pulled up, and a couple of plainclothesmen were inside, poking around the living room with abandon as if they owned the place. The Lottery Ticket, First 20 pages of a novel excerpt
So we're not particularly interested in touristy places, although I know we'll be doing a lot of poking through the old parts of town. Where should we go? What should we do?
Ordering a few leaves and poking at them desultorily does not constitute sharing a meal. Dr. Ali Binazir: How to Irritate Men
He was poking at the rubbish with his stick.
Chaucer's habit of poking fun at pardoners and summoners is not so much an example of impiety as a way of demonstrating how much virtue he has to spare.
After doing call time today at Norwood HQ, I can tell you firsthand that your little stunt is the electoral equivalent of poking a stick at a hornet's nest. Just FYI (Blog for Democracy)
Touching and poking the inner nose can cause nosebleeds.
They scurry across the marble floors, perch snoozing on the railings and snuggle into holes low down in the walls, their long tails poking out.
You've got no goddamned right to go poking around in that computer.
Emmanuel and the skewbald had much in common, including the use of the kitchen, and one saw their grey heads, almost any evening, poking together out of the window. Cider With Rosie
Some revelers wore straw sombreros and stick-on mustaches, poking fun at a national stereotype, while the government sought to promote a more serious side with an open-air philharmonic orchestra.
With some men, she gone, and her viduous mansion your heart to let, her successor, the new occupant, poking in all the drawers and corners, and cupboards of the tenement, finds her miniature and some of her dusty old letters hidden away somewhere, and says -- Was this the face he admired so? The Newcomes
Rep. Massa describes a confrontation with Emanuel in a shower: “I am showering, naked as a jaybird, and here comes Rahm Emanuel, not even with a towel wrapped around his tush, poking his finger in my chest, yelling at me.” Think Progress » ThinkFast: March 9, 2010
Not created in some lab with a bunch of doctors and scientists poking and prodding them with instruments.
Poking into the Butler skyline, the building is best described as spartan and secure. Post-gazette.com - News
The snowdrops and aconites are nearly over but crocuses and daffodils are taking their place in the spotlight, and the foliage of early tulips may be poking through already.
The end of the cable was left poking out of the wall.
Thankfully the fire crew didn't need to use their cutting equipment and managed to coax the tortoise out of his shell by poking around inside.
After plunging into a sorry plight, the pollster quit poking about and plotted a conspiracy.
Kumma was poking at the fire with a stick, his eyes flickering the blaze.
Mason had an oilcan in one hand and was poking at the equipment that ran the drill. BEAUTIFUL DREAMER
They pinned me down and attacked me, poking their fingers in my eyes, and forced my head into the toilet pan and flushed.
Legs and arms were poking and floating, defying laws of human biology and gravity. Times, Sunday Times
The door slid open with a familiar creak, an untidy head poking itself through, silhouetted against the warm glow of the lamps outside.
On this day, the first hepatica buds were poking through the leaf mat, and some were opening into startlingly light-blue flowers.
He began as a hairy hippie banjo player who took great delight at poking fun at his fellow Scots.
I toyed around with the idea of barging in on the main office of the company but I figured that might be too much like poking my head into a hornet's nest. Highways in Hiding
Practically every panel in the book has something, often a word balloon, but sometimes an arm or a piece of clothing, poking out over the edge.
Poking fun at the crumbling edifice of Afrikaner culture, subverting the images, distorting the holy icons and braaing the sacred cows, bitterkomix creators Joe Dog and Conrad Botes do what they do best - make comics.
T'pit was reet enew," he said to himself; and what need was there of "peeking and poking about this how? Son Philip
They moved about busily, stepping high and poking under the vegetation with their long beaks. Times, Sunday Times
We held our breath and listened and then came another noise, like some one poking a fire. The Treasure Seekers
What if the tax man goes poking around? Times, Sunday Times
Calomar had opened the door to the wood burning stove, and was poking at the fire with a metal poker he had found.
The fresco steps that I teach the kids are: making a cartoon, poking holes in the cartoon for pouncing, applying the intonaco coat of plaster on their tile, pouncing and painting. Random feeds from Syndic8.com
His long golden hair falls down over his shoulders, and you notice two pointed ears poking out from the golden locks.
Smiling, she put the statuette in the pocket of a clean waistcoat, making sure its soapstone snout could not be seen poking out. LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
Mr. Mbewe slides the stick shift into gear then rests his left hand on the wheel, poking a casual right elbow out of the window.

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