Sentence examples for poking away from inspiring English sources

"That's why you have to keep after it, poking away".

Ken had his BlackBerry, was poking away at it with the little plastic stick.

The Sharks straddled the blue line, poking away the puck, daring the Islanders to come over and face a body check.

"There are some nights when the ball won't go in," he said, but Iman Shumpert smothering a shooter or Jason Kidd poking away a steal "can be as provocative as the 3-point shot".

Both are excellent, though I'll confess to finding facials extremely stressful: what are you supposed to think about for the hour while some stranger is poking away at your face?

Again and again, Mr. Edwards -- politely and deferentially, referring to his opponent as "Mr. Vice President" -- challenged Mr. Cheney's attempt to discredit Mr. Kerry's views and record, poking away at Mr. Cheney and Mr. Bush.

The Slovenian does neither and Girardi pokes away the puck.

Make an appointment with your closest "doctor" and let her poke away.

The rebound poked away and out of the danger zone by Canada.

Rookie cornerback Damarious Randall lunged to poke away Rivers' short pass to Danny Woodhead near the front right pylon in the final seconds.

Recently, on a sodden evening in Dublin, Mathis noticed the Irish goalkeeper off his line and laced a shot from 40 yards that was barely poked away.