Sentence examples for poking around for from inspiring English sources

Capitol Hill is poking around for tax revenue.

Sometimes they come poking around for a fight, provoking the city slicker in me.

All day the dogs remained mostly quiet and calm, poking around for a boar they couldn't find.

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

Some parents are convinced that online discipline, combined with some poking around for verification, is the only strategy that will keep their teenagers in line online.

So he aims to be very scrupulous in his assessment of the situation, positioning himself as an "anthropologist" poking around for answers.

There were some positives in performance, although you had to poke around for them.

"You don't poke around for something you don't want to find," he's told her a few times.

And there's Wilton House itself: these days the earl lets anyone poke around (for £14.50 a head).

A skilled fund-raiser will then poke around for information on, say, your maiden name or any family foundations with either of your names attached to them.

Remembering that his stash of money had been raided, Altman went to the school the next day and poked around for another snake.