Sentence examples for off the poke from inspiring English sources

There was some worry Facebook might kill off the Poke when it buried it in the gear drop-down when the profile was redesigned as the Timeline.

McAllister took off to poke the ball to our full back, and the Doncaster lad was nowhere near him.

Ian Gray, the porter at King's at the time, says he and the college chaplain went up on to the roof to try to poke off the festive headgear with a stick.

A better, less cavalier debater than Trump would have seized on this opportunity to do what Clinton had just done to him: pull the scab off and poke around.

I haven't had a lazy weekend breakfast with my husband without it involving me feeding him (and getting told off for poking the pointy bit of the toast too far into his mouth on one fraught occasion).

Ranieri then replaced the ineffectual Shinji Okazaki with the more robust Leo Ulloa, who flicked on the long ball which saw Vardy hold off the challenge off Marc Wilson and poke the ball past Butland.

At his side, Councilman John Comarnisky, a 42-year-old school teacher, watches a pair of motorcyclists pull off the main road and slowly poke and puzzle about the flattened streets that stretch down from the hillside cemetery.

I can't walk into a wool shed without wanting to peel a couple of old ewes off and poke them down the chute".

"You have shooed off the Toad on the Pipeline, poking it with a sharp stick," he continued, using his usual nickname for the Russian president.

These days, he can rattle off the celebrities that have gently poked fun at the site and its advertisements from Ellen Degeneres to Carrie Underwood to Carmelo Anthony.

Defender Dave Elebert got on the end of a free-kick by sub Patrick McEleney but his goalwards poke was cleared off the line by Sam Oji.