How To Use Poky In A Sentence
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Mary's Fish Camp is poky in the way the Pearl is, with plain navy-and-gray walls, plywood banquettes, and a curved eating bar covered in tin.
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Did you think I was just going to stay in that poky apartment and wait until you deigned to return?
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I wish you wouldn't be so poky when you're getting ready.
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Carpenters worked in the hallway, men with close-cropped hair and poky drawls, calling to each other under the steam ducts.
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Having lived in Victorian houses with all those poky little rooms, we have tried to provide openness.
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How gloomy, bricky, hessianlined and poky it was.
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He politely accepts a smaller room up a poky flight of stairs, where his tall frame seems ill at ease.
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It's mainly a liberating process; I create shelf space in our poky house, I get to re-evaluate albums I'd forgotten about and I hopefully get some cash.
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It was a poky, nondescript place, part of what, these days, would be called keyworker housing.
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No one said that electric cars have to be poky, dull, and ‘responsible.’
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The whole family was crammed into two poky little rooms.
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Just six tiny rooms linked by a notably poky staircase.
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The whole family was crammed into two poky little rooms.
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The only major alteration was the transformation of a poky shower room and toilet into an elegant pampering place.
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A few of the rooms are a little poky, with some noise coming from the kitchen.
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They gave me a room in a hostel - poky little place, more like a kennel it was.
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This hit me hard, and I felt vulnerable in the poky hotel room with only the ticking time bomb of a box and the view of my sea for comfort.
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We might want to live in one we could justifiably call old, or quaint, modern, or minimalist, but we might feel less enthusiastic once we had come to think of the same property as decrepit, poky, brash, or bleak.
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Apokyn was given priority review because injectable apomorphine is the first therapy approved to treat these episodes acutely (during the episode).
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The whole family was crammed into two poky little rooms.
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passed a series of poky little one-horse towns
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Carpenters worked in the hallway, men with close-cropped hair and poky drawls, calling to each other under the steam ducts.
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Shoppers have begun to tire of the long queues, poky car parks and limited ranges stocked by the German discounters.
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We got used to it, but the house is poky in the extreme.
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It is all dark and poky, you know.
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They have completely the wrong idea about what people want - such as having a poky kitchen in the basement.
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In its sportiest driving mode, the Mito is "zesty" and "poky enough to keep you entertained", with a "cracking drivetrain, able to stand comparison with the Cooper S".
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Take a poky little room above a pub: there are more people on stage than there are in the audience.
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The whole family was crammed into two poky little rooms.
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The downside is that some rooms remain authentically poky, with poor views or no balconies.
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In a brilliant coup de theatre, we first see him in what appears to be a poky little confining room, which as the play starts, expands into a cosy living room decorated for Christmas.
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But whether you opt for old or new, it seems the future is looking bright for the dark and poky terrace.
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The only value I can see is to provide a little giddyap to that poky foursome in front of you.
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After a gruelling day of standing staring into space, she returns to her poky apartment to make drawings, which she occasionally sells through an art dealer.
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The whole family was crammed into two poky little rooms.
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Is it a harmful geographic stereotype to suggest that southerners are a little bit poky?
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But the mirror, mirror on the wall and on the bedside cabinet drawers is also telling us something about the poky size of rooms in new-builds.
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They live in a poky little flat.
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We were surprised that people were watching our poky little car show.
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I wish you wouldn't be so poky when you're getting ready.
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Davies arrived on stage at the poky Basement Bar like Gulliver, forcing a crouch so his huge arms could reach up to the perilously low ceiling.
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A huddle of poky teashops serves the day labourers who congregate here in search of work, and travellers from the station.
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What you find is a poky little afterthought crammed into a corner of the top floor.
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You've sure got a case of happenedicitis," said Poky Rodgers, fency rider of the Largo Verde _potrero_ [61].
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But it represents an opportunity to change the opinion that much affordable new housing is both unpleasing and poky.
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The poky Austrian farm building is filled with a blaze of noise, colour and light.
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It was a poky, little, shabby-genteel place, where four lines of dingy two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in enclo - sure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and uncongenial atmosphere.
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Not much land, either, except for a poky office in a basement in Camden Town.
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It was a poky, nondescript place, part of what, these days, would be called keyworker housing.
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Here we are, though, in a poky room that slopes quite dramatically towards the door.
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The only major alteration was the transformation of a poky shower room and toilet into an elegant pampering place.
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No doubt many parents have used The Poky Little Puppy to teach the consequences of dallying or ignoring boundaries.
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Within the few pubs that do provide smoke-free areas, the no smoking rooms invariably tend to be the most unattractive/poky/tatty.
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And I can only stay home and knit, like a poky old woman! 'And Jo shook the blue army sock till the needles rattled like castanets, and her ball bounded across the room.