Sentence examples for poke about from inspiring English sources

As the police poke about, there is no music on the soundtrack, no dialogue for at least a minute.

Inspectors will have wide powers to poke about and take samples where they need to (rather than where governments point them to).

It may be carried on the boots and gear of humans who poke about in caves.

I love to visit these markets, to poke about in the stalls and, essentially, poke about in other people's lives, by examining the objects that once belonged to them.

It's tempting to poke about for a glint of deadly ambition or a poor-me-forgotten-sister-complex.

Sea anemones wave long tentacles in the currents to catch their next meal as squat lobsters poke about for juicy morsels.

He poked about in the elephant grass with a stick, pointing out thick cement slabs that were once the foundations of huts.

That comes in handy when poking about for a favorite part of a favorite episode in, say, the third season of "The Sopranos".

Anil is often in the dark in this book; she pokes about by the light of flickering matches in ancient caves; she works in the holds of abandoned ships and in the ballrooms of derelict mansions.

We are used to our bodies being appraised and poked about, viewed as vehicles for procreation or male pleasure – or as symbols first of beauty and then, in later life, of ugliness.

A lady poking about a Madison Avenue gift shop came upon a little enamelled cigarette bos.