VERB
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to push against gently
She nudged my elbow when she saw her friend enter the restaurant
How To Use poke at In A Sentence
- She spoke at a public rally in Hyde Park.
- I poke at the handphone's buttons to make a reply.
- The President spoke at length in a speech punctuated by applause.
- Pouring out a remarkably viscous mixture of irrelevance and self-gratulatory dimestore rhetoric, the racist National Post blogger "Raphael Alexander" (not his real name) takes a poke at me for my remarks about Michael Coren yesterday. Archive 2009-04-01
- Whether he is playing to Islamic radicals or simply taking a final poke at George Bush, his confrontation with America and the world will soon be one more problem for Mr.Clinton.
- She spoke at a public rally in Hyde Park.
- Mandela rubbed noses with activists in Maori "hongi" custom and raised his fist from the pulpit to cries of "Amandla" as he spoke at an Anglican cathedral on the first day of a state visit to New ANC Daily News Briefing
- It's not a biting criticism of the Anglican Church or of religion in general but a light-hearted poke at the churchmen of England.
- Characters can be anything from paddles in pong, to fully rendered super heroes, to undulating soundscapes we poke at with sticks. The Authorship Conflict
- Tyson knocked my wallet off, so I took a poke at him.
