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The phrase "are poking through" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is emerging or becoming visible from behind or beneath something else.
Example: "The flowers are poking through the snow, signaling the arrival of spring."
Alternatives: "are breaking through" or "are emerging from".
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"The bones are poking through your skin.
Climb the stairs and you find yourself inside a full-size, wooden-ceilinged replica of the Pier gallery on Orkney Mainland – literally at the other end of the British Isles from Tate St Ives, where even in February flowers are poking through and the sea is a tropical blue.
Although at six months Ferguson is still fog bound, there are days when the sun is doing its work and more and more rays of light are poking through.
Video footage shot by the CHDC at the Calgary airport in March 2016 shown to VICE appears to show three draft horses in a crate, one horse so tall both ears are poking through the roof of the crate.
Video footage shot by the CHDC at the Calgary airport in March 2016 appears to show three draft horses in a crate, one horse so tall both ears are poking through the roof of the crate.
If lots of roots are poking through, you need a bigger pot.
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His backbone was poking through, giving him a sudden hunchback.
He also noted that if previous reader reports that a young one was poking through were correct, the chick should have been clear of the egg by now.
Suddenly a cry went out: An arm, clearly lifeless, was poking through the debris.
When he woke up, in the dirt, several teeth were poking through his cheek.
The sun was poking through the clouds and I could see the mist rising.
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