Words similar to poke

Example sentences for: poke

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Will notes that in Bush's Talk magazine interview (separate from Hillary's), Bush uses the f-word frequently and seems to poke fun at a former death-row prisoner to whom he refused clemency.
Oddly, borak was coupled with the verb poke in the phrase to poke borak at , meaning to deride, and this was close enough to the transitive use of the verb barrack ridicule, jeer at, verbally abuse to suggest that the two might be connected.
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.
Dr. Evil dispatches a new henchman, a 400-plus pound kilt-wearing Scotsman named Fat Bastard (also Myers) to poke a long needle into the frozen Austin's crotch.
In a sentence intended to poke fun at the Saxonists, Hall declared: Our lingual hybridism is ineradicable.