Definition: 1. To quickly push your fingers or another object into somebody or something. 2. A bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases. 3. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow). 4. (boxing) a blow with the fist.
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Use 'poke' in a sentence:
1. Don't be a meddlesome wench and poke your nose where it's no cause to go.
2. The fungus may be carried on the boots and gear of humans who poke about in caves.
3. DON't POKE PEOPLE YOU DONT KNOW.
4. We hackers like to poke at the guts of things.
5. The kids poked holes in the ice with sticks.
6. I'm sick of being poked and prodded by doctors.
7. Should I poke it with my net?
8. Our job is not only to poke the holes in the ground.
9. Right yonder's where I saw Injun Joe poke up his candle, Huck!
10. She poked at her food with a fork.
11. He poke in the monster's eye with his horns!
12. We opened up the car bonnet and he started poking around in my engine.
13. Be careful to not poke youreye out.
14. Reggie threw more wood on the fire and poked at it.
15. Don't poke her eye out with that stick!
16. 5-star Tip. It's never a good idea to "poke" your professor.
17. John smiled at them and gave Richard a playful poke.
18. Therefore, a client is unable peek or poke the ticket content.
19. We've had journalists poking around and asking a lot of questions.
20. She got up and poked the fire.
21. We hadn't been able to poke our heads out and see what was going on.
22. They poke at it with long sticks, looking for bodies.
23. If I poke my body, I feel it in my mind.
24. No sooner was the mouth finished than it began to laugh and poke fun at him.
25. Straight men don't poke other men.
26. I poke around but I still can't find any trousers.
27. She should know better than to poke the animal with her umbrella.
28. She poked fun at people's shortcomings.
29. Poke the soil with your finger before watering.
30. We never thought she would poke her nose into this.
31. Larry Ellison loves to poke at it.
32. I prefer something with a bit more poke.
33. Julie tapped on my door and poked her head in.
34. The police spent the day poking around in his office but found nothing.
35. And not just because you'll poke someone's eye out.
36. Everywhere you look is life; even the little ball of spit on the weed stalk, if you poke it apart, has a green worm inside it.
37. She poked and shifted things with the tip of her walking stick.
38. If your unconscious is saying don't take that job, go on that date, poke that skunk—take heed.
39. He has a short fuse, and they poke and prod to see if he will explode.
40. He poked around the top of his cupboard for the bottle of whisky.
41. Clumps of grass poked up through the snow.
42. Horses were poking their heads over their stall doors.
43. He saw the dog's twitching nose poke out of the basket.
44. Stop poking me in the ribs!
45. The end of the cable was left poking out of the wall.
46. He poked at the spaghetti with a fork.
47. He poked his finger into the hole.
48. He gave me a poke in the ribs to wake me up.
49. Her novels poke fun at the upper class.
50. He poked his head around the corner to check that nobody was coming.
51. Someone had poked a message under the door.
52. We don't like strangers who poke their noses into our affairs.
53. She poked him in the ribs with her elbow.
54. She poked her elbow into his ribs.
55. This is not because God created them to poke fun at us; it is because humans and chimps are descended from the same relatively recent primitive ape.
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