Sentence examples for poking about for from inspiring English sources

At the press conference, the reporters kept after Nadal, in English and in Spanish, poking about for some revelatory quote.

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

Cut to a woodsy setting where the detectives Cassie Mayweather (Ms. Bullock and Sam Kennedy Mr. Chaplinin) are poking about for evidence near the mutilated body of a woman wrapped in a plastic sheet.

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.

My brother-in-law used to live in a Hampshire village called Bishopstoke – somewhere I know back-of-my-hand well, as I lived in the area myself from birth until I buggered off to university in the English northwest, for nights out at Liverpool's Krazyhouse and hungover mornings poking about Birchwood's Asda for greasy revival.

There were excursions, sometimes twice daily, for bicycling or poking about a castle with walls festooned with stag heads and dueling pistols, or for annoying the local livestock.

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

The novel's wry philosophical depth opened my eyes to what Percy called "the search," poking around for clues about why we are here.

In states that apply what the IAEA calls its Additional Protocol, inspectors have much broader rights than they used to, both to demand all kinds of information about a country's nuclear industry, and to poke about looking for illicit activity.

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.