How To Use Poke at In A Sentence
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She spoke at a public rally in Hyde Park.
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I poke at the handphone's buttons to make a reply.
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The President spoke at length in a speech punctuated by applause.
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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
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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.
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She spoke at a public rally in Hyde Park.
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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
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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.
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Characters can be anything from paddles in pong, to fully rendered super heroes, to undulating soundscapes we poke at with sticks.
The Authorship Conflict
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Tyson knocked my wallet off, so I took a poke at him.
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Jones spoke at the teachers' annual convention.
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In November eighteen sixty-three, President Lincoln traveled to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. He spoke at the opening of a military cemetery.
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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.
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Bush spoke at the terminal to highlight administration efforts to beef up security at seaports.
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The president spoke at graduation day for the U.S. Naval Academy.
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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.
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For supper they are given pitta bread, tahini and stuffed vine leaves, which they poke at mistrustfully with their fingers - there is no cutlery.
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In January of 2004, Richard Goode spoke at a memorial service commemorating the life and death of a coal miner named Joseph Mairs, Jr.
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These sentiments were echoed from the floor and members spoke at length about his lifetime commitment to the party.
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This positioner holds the spoke at a slight angle, so that the shoulder of the tenon will have the correct angle to provide the dish of the wheel.
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And once this sophisticated electronic gear is installed, they impulsively poke at keys and buttons on the chance that they can make it work with little or no reference to the manuals.
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Sure, and why not a cane to poke at baskets?
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On Friday, I traveled to Annapolis, where I spoke at the Commencement of the United States Naval Academy.
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I first met whatshisname, when I spoke at the Oxford Union while he was its president.
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The chief information officer and chief compliance officer, who were the top-ranking project sponsors, spoke at the communication sessions in an auditorium.
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Dr. Regina Dugan, director of the Defense Advance Research Projects Agency, spoke at D9 on her program's ongoing efforts to reach homomorphic encryption and hypersonic speed, and opened a window into the techiest part of the U.S. Defense Department.
Defense on the Offense
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When the pope spoke at Aida refugee camp nearby, he called the towering wall Israel built around Palestinian areas a symbol of "stalemate.
Undefined
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No sweat off Fillion's bloodied brow as he invites people to freely take a poke at the gelatin prosthetics that have been adhered to his face.
'Desperate Housewives' gets serious for finale
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I first met Holliday when he spoke at a symposium hosted by the Oakland Museum during California's sesquicentennial anniversary of the discovery of gold in California.
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No one spoke to Renna during the long march into the mountains—in fact, no one spoke at all, even during the brief periods when they stopped to attend to bodily functions and sip a bitter tealike substance.
Sanctuary
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The "slate" uses virtual keyboards that you poke at with a special stylus, or handwriting recognition that is hit-and-miss.
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Well, the petrol version will get you from to 60 in about two hours, so if you want any poke at all, and surely that's the reason why you're buying a BMW, you have to go for the diesel.
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Those of us who read Goldberg's report of the interview, and then heard the verbal juggling from the Maximum Leader as he spoke at the great hall of the University, were left very confused.
Yoani Sanchez: Fidel's Words Continue to Echo... Bitterly
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Deftly sewn as the best menswear bespoke attire, a chalk stripe leads in this soft deep chocolate herringbone percale.
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Spoke at the inaugural meeting of Stop the War.
Times, Sunday Times
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_Click, click, click, click_ rang the hammer, and _splish, splash_ went the fragments of rock that fell in the water or were thrown into it; and thus for quite two hours Mr Temple hammered away, and after giving up a fragmentary conversation Dick and Josh grew silent or only spoke at intervals.
Menhardoc
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The Priests of the Parish would like to thank the Dromantine Fathers who spoke at all last week's masses about the missions.
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Matt was silent as he continued to poke at the fire, every so often looking up from the flames to gaze at the lake's distant shore.
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Only a small handful of large investors spoke at the meeting, which was dominated by Conrail employees.
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I spoke at the press conference to launch this booklet.
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People spoke, when they spoke at all, in whispers, and John was so infected by the air of solemnity that when a small boy in the gallery began to call out "Acid drops or cigarettes!" he felt that a sidesman must appear from a pew and take the lad to the police-station for brawling in a sacred edifice.
The Foolish Lovers
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Ron Hogan, the founder of Beatrice. com and former e-marketing manager for Houghtlin Mifflin, spoke at length on the topic.
Andrew Shaffer: Highlights From the First Annual Book Blogger Convention
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They used the immediacy of the show to throw in a number of hyper-topical jokes from Bret Farve to Chilean miners (too soon?), the show also included just about the only actual skit from the show within the show, TGS, they ever allowed, taking a poke at Fox News.
Roger Catlin: Review: 30 Rock Plays Like a Long SNL Sketch
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The president wore a bulletproof vest and spoke at a podium that was protected by bullet-proof glass.
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One of her young schoolgoing daughters spoke at the funeral and what she said about her mother brought tears to the eyes of most of us present.
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Hirschfield, a wealthy political gadfly, spoke at the conference.
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RUSH: Yes, I think it stunned a lot of people, although the members of this group, which migrated to Israel at the end of the '60s led by a Chicago bus driver, they had been kind of ingratiating themselves with Whitney and Bobby for some time and one of them spoke at the recent funeral of her father.
CNN Transcript May 30, 2003
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I know PHS through its executive director, Liz Evans, whom I met in Liverpool when I spoke at the International Harm Reduction Association conference last year.
Stanton Peele: Living and Dying With And Without Harm Reduction
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Bennett took a poke at the President's refusal to sign the bill.
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I spoke at the end of last week to a primary school head teacher.
Times, Sunday Times
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She raised $30 million in five years, which is incredible, and barnstormed the country and spoke at the Democratic convention and was just an inspiration, I think, to a lot of people.
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After the welcoming ceremony, he spoke at the jirga - the council of elders - which met inside the village mosque.
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Davutoglu spoke at length about what he described as strenuous efforts by Turkey and Brazil to meet the terms of a letter Obama sent to Erdogan and Brazil's president, outlining the terms of the deal to fuel a research reactor.
U.S. acts to restore ties with Turkey; foreign minister likens attack to 9/11
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He spoke at once, just the slightest lilt to his voice betraying his origins.
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Though many stalwart defenders of the homeless also spoke at the meeting, the council ultimately passed two ordinances that appear intended to clear transients out.
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The kids poke at their breakfasts, impatient for the sand and its myriad of playing opportunities.
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As he spoke at the first whistle-stop, 19-year-old Ben Brown, an NDP supporter, stood silently holding a sign warning of environmental damage under a Conservative government.
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In 1984 our two-man junk bond department spoke at a Salomon Brothers seminar for several hundred savings and loan managers.
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I have an 8 year old great grandson who would be trilled if the President spoke at his school no matter what he said, During the election he would watch his campaign ads on T.V., he talked about Obama so much at school his teacher told him after the election he had won and Kyle had to stop talking about him.
Obama student talk draws fire from critics
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I spoke at the end of last week to a primary school head teacher.
Times, Sunday Times
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She spoke at length about its complex system of color-nodes, its powerful contractile capacity.
MAJIPOOR CHRONICLES
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Ask your brother not to poke at that poor dog!
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BIL sort of formed out of a desire to shadow TED," says Eric Gradman, a roboticist who spoke at the first BIL, in 2008.
For BIL, Tagging Along With TED Proves to Be an Excellent Adventure
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She spoke at length.
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Bennet took a poke at the President's recent refusal to sign the bill.
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The next morning he spoke at a large girls 'school where there were about 400 girls and after that we were again entertained at a very good luncheon entirely in Western style: This is simply an illustration of the good feeling of the Japanese towards ourselves.
Occidental Japan
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They spoke at length, reviewing the entire incident.
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Bachmann spoke at an Iowans for Tax Relief event over the weekend and she blipped my radar with this musing on the early settlers, who "had different cultures, different backgrounds, different traditions":
Michele Bachmann's 'absolutely amazing' view of history
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Says she, 'I never hear a sparrer chirpin' and a kittle b'ilin ', that I don't think o' the dinner Mary Andrews had the day Judge McGowan spoke at the big barbecue. '
Aunt Jane of Kentucky
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Jones spoke at the teachers' annual convention.
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I don't think I want to poke at that one any more closely, except to say that high infant mortality rates and higher fertility tend to co-occur.
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The young people spoke at length about their experiences.
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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.
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** It was a markedly different discussion from when Pat Cadigan spoke at my Science Fiction course at UC Santa Cruz, when the boondoggled Cadigan was sabotaged with a bunch of unintelligible academic-theory questions about the implications of Lacan and Freud in her identity-bender work.
A Paparazzo at the LA Festival of Books
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It was a good-natured poke at downtown cliches.
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I need to be able to putter and poke at things and get up and wander around and let my brain whirr on the hamster wheel rather than attempting to be disciplined and productive.
I can make it longer if you like the style
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Old ladies poke at pompano and snapper flopped whole on beds of melting ice in the fish markets.
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She spoke at length about its complex system of color-nodes, its powerful contractile capacity.
MAJIPOOR CHRONICLES
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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.
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Something he doesn't tell you, that Michigan plant he spoke at turned out to be one of those old stinkpots that was then under investigation for Clean Air Act violations.
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Yours, true to your blood (for you are _Scot Scotorum_), is the humorist's way: how many passengers you have warmed and tickled with your genial chaff, hiding constant kindness under a jocose word, perhaps teasing us Americans on our curious conduct of knives and forks, or (for a change) taking the cisatlantic side of the jape, esteeming no less highly a sound poke at British foibles.
Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned
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Two people who defied law enforcement barricades, and who were arrested and jailed, spoke at the meeting.
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Then he took a poke at my hair, telling me I looked like a scarecrow!
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Many leaders spoke at the conference, and Wright summarizes a number of their orations.
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You can poke at it with a screwdriver or a piece of wire.
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He spoke at such length and with such volubility that you were inclined to believe that he was telling the truth.
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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.
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My veins, wizened from chemo, are the bane of phlebotomists across the country who poke at me with frustrated abandon; immobilization made sleep impossible, even if they hadn't woken me at regular intervals to measure what are peppily termed "your vitals;" at least the scar on my head was ready -- they could go in through the same incision as seven years before.
Rabbi David Wolpe: Really, Again?
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Chen spoke at a ceremony to express gratitude to the voluntary workers and several associations who have contributed significantly to the reformatory education of criminals.
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He watched her dead-white face for a while, and then went to poke at the fire some more.
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The opposition (with difficulty prevented from making a campaign issue out of it as it was) spoke at the planetary conferences of "crackpotism" and "Waste of the taxpayers 'money.
The Martian Way
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During the first session Susie barely spoke at all.
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If the entire world spoke at once, could you reliably isolate what a single individual is saying?
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They spoke at length, reviewing the entire incident.
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Then he took a poke at my hair, telling me I looked like a scarecrow!
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This was on clear display when I visited with the BSR team in our Beijing office and spoke at the launch of the Chinese edition of Sustainable Excellence, the book I co-wrote with Zachary Karabell.
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In Cork he spoke at the Temperance Institute and the Imperial Hotel, but often his lectures were in Wesleyan chapels or Independent chapels.
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He also spoke at an antiwar event that night organized by Columbia University's antiwar coalition.
