Synonym: goad, jab, push, ram, shove, spur, thrust. Similar words: bespoke, spokesman, joke, stroke, broker, invoke, provoke. Meaning: [pəʊk] n. 1. tall coarse perennial American herb having small white flowers followed by blackish-red berries on long drooping racemes; young fleshy stems are edible; berries and root are poisonous 2. someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind 3. a bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases 4. a sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow) 5. (boxing) a blow with the fist. v. 1. poke or thrust abruptly 2. search or inquire in a meddlesome way 3. stir by poking 4. hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument 5. make a hole by poking.
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31. I poke a finger into it; still cold.
32. Don't allow your head to poke forward.
33. Vanessa gave me a poke in the ribs.
34. Why not let me poke around quietly?
35. It was a good-natured poke at downtown cliches.
36. Bill might lean down and poke the crumbling framework.
37. They poke burning sticks at me.
37. Sentencedict.com try its best to gather and create good sentences.
38. Every year, around 35,000 children poke something into their ear, nose or eye which needs treatment.
39. Poke your finger into the cup of Blob and try to touch the bottom of the cup in one second. 3.
40. It's time you scrapped your overwritten early loves and learned to poke fun at the real thing.
41. It will then learn to poke sticks in termite mounds when it is hungry.
42. Bob had a brown paper poke in his hand from which he was eating magic mushrooms as if they were lemon drops.
43. Bennet took a poke at the President's recent refusal to sign the bill.
44. A whole category of jokes has been created to poke fun at Microsoft and its operating system, Windows 95.
45. Sure, and why not a cane to poke at baskets?
46. Have to find out for himself, no other way, poke around, listen, ask, play it carefully.
47. I used to poke around the Internet and see what was new online.
48. Poke around any plumbing, lift any loose floorboards and inspect the joists, using your screwdriver and torch.
49. But while the turbo provides the poke, the diesel factor ensures economic consumption of around 47 miles per gallon.
50. Mattresses have been driven out and dumped in fields, sticks of broken furniture poke out of ditches and broken-backed fences contain nothing.
51. Newspapers started to defy the strict censorship imposed during the coup and to poke fun at Mr Serrano.
52. Jones won the race fractionally to poke the ball well wide of goal, but then went tumbling.
53. You poke it up and in before the action begins, thus providing a protective barrier against pregnancy and sexually-transmitted diseases.
54. My friends poke fun at me by calling me a bully.
55. He wasn't averse to the odd one-night quality poke, of course, but that was that.
56. He wouldn't take kindly to an outsider coming to interfere and poke about.
57. They pick through trash, poke through mail and tap into sophisticated computer databases in search of the elusive money trail.
58. I decided to poke his eye too if he shouted or smacked me.
59. He spoke often of Eliot, trying from time to time to poke gentle fun at him.
60. I shan't inspect the harness, I shan't poke around the stables.