Sentence examples for poked from inspiring English sources

There was a degree of irony to the moment, given Paul's 2016 campaign spent much of the day fundraising from the event and rallying its supporters, while a pro-Paul Super Pac even poked fun at Cruz over Twitter.

The long-suffering chef could take having his eye poked out, but now Laurel's committed the ultimate crime.

It should have been 3-1 moments later as Valencia strung together a brilliant passing move but, with the hard work done, Barragan poked wide when one-on-one with Casillas.

The group's performance, against a backdrop that included the Union flag, the Olympic rings and the Queen's profile, saw them beat Carroll, a favourite, who has cerebral palsy and whose routine poked fun at BGT's BBC rival The Voice, including judge Tom Jones.

"However, left-back Green and Matt Coupe got their wires crossed in trying to clear and the former poked out a foot and sent the ball past his goalkeeper and into the net".

He wrote about guilt and sin, raged about indignities and poked back at the hypocrisy of the prisoner's dubious ethical code ("I have seen sex offenders attacked. Almost always they're the weaker ones. I've seen big, muscular and capable rapists walk the landings with impunity").

It's their own administrative incompetence that poked the bear in the first place.

He fed Kocsis, whose shot cannoned of a German defender and fell to Puskas who poked the ball home from close range.

Hörchner's story had all the elements of a quirky Australian yarn and was duly widely followed up in Australia and overseas, in stories that poked fun at animal activists who complained about swearing at sheep.

The son of a black South African mother and white European father, Noah made his debut on "The Daily Show" last December with a segment that poked fun at cliched American images of Africa, where he lived as child.

Spoon the batter into the tin, cover the top with a lid of foil and then bake for about an hour (remove the foil after 40 minutes) until a skewer poked in comes out clean.