Sentence examples for a sharp poke from inspiring English sources

Nothing can deflate a pretentious cocktail faster than a sharp poke with a paper umbrella.

Oratorically, however, he seemed nimble enough, delivering a sharp poke in the gut to President Vladimir V. Putin and the Kremlin.

'Stand up when your father comes into the room!' was another of her favourite sayings, hissed through her teeth and accompanied by a sharp poke in the ribs.

"We're trying to get Julian fit because he's turned up overweight," said the head coach, Steve Hansen, deciding against giving the player a soft landing on his over-ample behind in favour of a sharp poke in the eye.

Michael Foreman's The Little Bookshop and the Origami Army (Andersen Press), out in paperback this June, delivers not so much a sideswipe as a sharp poke in the snoot to the parliamentary status quo.

Presented as a major part of Obama's "pivot" to Asia, the pact notably excludes China and thus is conventionally considered a sharp poke in the eye for the Chinese.

It may not have a blade but it can still give a few sharp pokes if not careful.

You'd think the mugging that went down in Wisconsin would be the sharp poke in the side necessary to wake Liberals up.

So Goksan et al. used a technique called functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to compare the brain responses of adults and newborns to the same stimulus a sharp poke of the foot.

Work with it till it looks safe enough to enter your nose without any danger of a sharp edge poking out from the spring.

But Alice — I think that was her name — had a tough, nearly incomprehensible accent, small, discolored teeth, a habit of going from wheedling to sharp pokes in the side, a fund of dirty talk, and startlingly precocious ways.