Sentence examples for a poking from inspiring English sources

There was a search box to help users call up other profiles, and a "poking" button, which they could use to let other people know that their profiles had been viewed.

God turns out to be a big black woman with a poking sense of humor; Jesus is a Middle Easterner in plaid shirt and jeans; and the Holy Spirit is an Asian pixie with gardener's gloves.

Shut in 1959 during the American National Exhibit in Moscow, the picture shows then U.S. Vice President Nixon as glowering at faint Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev with a poking finger in front of the crowds.

If your fingers are a bit big, try a poking the stuffing in with a pencil.

Admittedly, when someone does a fussy little wiggle and wakes up talking like a granny British imp witch or a Gargamel, it does feel like you're getting a poking with a dowsing rod of annoying.

It is not normal for your cheek to be tearing because of a poking wire.

But there's a bit of a pig-in-a-poke aspect to the deal.

A rat poking the lever, hoping for a treat.

A mechanic poked beneath a hood polished black.

A face poked out of an upstairs window and receded.

It was like poking a hornet nest.