Sentence examples for poke a hand from inspiring English sources

In another sculpture, entitled Seeing Is Believing, a metal arm can poke a hand fiercely at the disembodied chest of Christ.

I poke out a hand to break the silence as we both rise.

One is "Un Chien Andalou," the notorious 16-minute comic horror movie made in 1929 by Luis Bu? and Salvador Dal?in which a man appears to slice open a woman's eyeball with a straight razor; ants crawl out of a hole in another man's palm; and a woman pokes a severed hand in the street with her walking stick.

He swerved around defensemen Hal Gill and Sean O'Donnell, then poked a one-hand shot past goaltender Byron Dafoe with 1 minute 31 seconds left in overtime to give the Islanders a hard-to-fathom 2-1 victoverover the Boston Bruins at the Fleet Center.

If the hand is stuck, poke a hole in the wax fingertips with a pencil tip to release the suction.

One shows a woman with bare hands poking a living flower into a crack in a wall which a generation ago literally divided a nation.

Keep curious children and pets away from the house and don't poke your hand in or touch the pups for the first week.

The soldier shook his head and poked his hand into a basket of laundry on a table between him and the woman.

He pokes the hand with a pen to demonstrate the absence of a hand-hole.

It's very easy to cut straight through the skin and poke into your hand, which can result in a nasty cut.

Hands are the focus of an earlier work, "Puppet" (1993), a sprightly drawing of a comic ceramic container in the shape of a bag, with eyes, a nose and a mouth through which a hand pokes; it is displayed by two realistic hands that hold it up against the outline of a torso.