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Example sentences for: poke

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Some critics praise the film for featuring a hard-working family instead of Hollywood's usual black "pimps and junkies" (Roger Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). Others say it just replaces a negative stereotype with a schmaltzy one: "[I]t pushes emotional buttons with all the subtlety of a poke in the baby-back ribs" (Richard Corliss, Time ). (Photos and the like are available here.)
Republicans will hint at Democratic immorality, Democrats will poke at Republican obsessive nuttiness.
If time allows for further exploration of these old neighborhoods, poke around Qianhai and Houhai lakes for weekend street markets.
No firm is sure how much oil is underneath the property, so they hire a team of engineers to poke at the surface rocks and make a guess.
The mother and daughter robots work as a team--the mother carries a load of communications equipment and battery power into the search site, then deploys the daughter to poke through the debris and rubble for evidence of survivors, the Washington Post reports.