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:

It's very handy in the early stages of dating, because it's wonderfully vague--not to mention that it provides an opportunity to poke fun at oneself and modern dating rituals.
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.
The land is like an iceberg; massive mountains poke through the clouds, forming the mere tip of a submerged mass.
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.
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.