Words similar to poke

Example sentences for: poke

How can you use “poke” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Rather than defend religious dogma, they poke holes in evolutionary dogma, scrutinizing the theory's missing links and the mathematical probability of the emergence of complex life.
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.
It is much harder to convince someone to poke her gums every night with a piece of rubber, to sleep with a choking plastic tooth guard, and to undergo four surgeries to fix a gum flap, all for a benefit that is decades away.
So we suggest that you poke around at random.
The land is like an iceberg; massive mountains poke through the clouds, forming the mere tip of a submerged mass.