POKE in a Sentence

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For POKE, below is one of 69 sentences:
He was charged with criminal libel for posting articles on a satiric online publication that poked fun at a finance professor.

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 Meanings and Examples of POKE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
poke
 v.  push at, as with a finger or an arm; search or look curiously; proceed in slow or lazy manner; thrust forward
Classic Sentence: (56 in 4 pages)
1  Don't you be a meddlesome wench an poke your nose where it's no cause to go.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
2  Please to don't poke fun at a poor girl like me, mum.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI.
3  And if the Yankees can take the railroad there, they can pull up the strings and have us, just like a possum in a poke.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
4  The mottled, pin-headed guinea-hens, always resentful of captivity, ran screeching out into the tunnel and tried to poke their ugly, painted faces through the snow walls.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIII
5  This welcome ended in a soft peal of mirthless laughter as Heron salaamed and then began to poke the ground with his cane.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
6  I let him run on, this papier-mache Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger through him, and would find nothing inside but a little loose dirt, maybe.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In I
7  I should think she'd hate to poke herself where she isn't wanted, said Jo crossly, for she disliked the trouble of overseeing a fidgety child when she wanted to enjoy herself.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER EIGHT
8  And here I may remark that when Mr. Wopsle referred to me, he considered it a necessary part of such reference to rumple my hair and poke it into my eyes.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X
9  He'll stand like a pig in a poke.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 9
10  I don't want to know your private affairs, for I never poke my nose into such things.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER V
11  They were like the Sunday-afternoon mob starting at monkeys in the Zoo, poking fingers and making faces and giggling at the resentment of the more dignified race.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
12  The righteous widow glared, banged into the house, came out poking at her bonnet, marched away.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
13  Rather pathetic: rich man poking around and trying to be useful.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
14  Mademoiselle was poking at a rusty stove that smoked a little and warmed the room indifferently.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXVI
15  High in a treetop he stopped, and, poking his head cautiously from behind a branch, looked down with an air of trepidation.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
Example Sentence:
1  She should know better than to poke the animal with her umbrella.
2  Defense attorneys tried to poke holes in Rodger's story.
3  Be careful not to poke someone in the eye with your umbrella.
4  Never poke a finger or scissors into an electric socket.
5  The children's heads poke from under the blankets.
6  When the rattlesnake is rattling, it's usually not a good idea to go poking it with a stick.
7  He poked about in his bag for his ticket.
8  Andy poked the fish with his finger to see if it was still alive.
9  He poked a hole in a paper screen.
10  He poked at the frog with a stick.
11  My friend Kitty's curiosity was irrepressible: she poked her nose into everybody's business and just laughed.
12  He was charged with criminal libel for posting articles on a satiric online publication that poked fun at a finance professor.
13  The film amusingly pokes fun at the media.