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:

Here, sugar cane as high as three men grows in abundance, trucks trundle around with monster bundles of the stuff, and chimneys of sugar-cane factories poke skyward like cathedral towers.
And if you need more, there's two years' worth of our archive, "The Compost," to poke around in.
In a sentence intended to poke fun at the Saxonists, Hall declared: Our lingual hybridism is ineradicable.
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.
Republicans will hint at Democratic immorality, Democrats will poke at Republican obsessive nuttiness.