Words similar to poked

Example sentences for: poked

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

On Springer's show, men learn their girlfriends are actually boys; wives learn their husbands are sleeping with their sisters or ex-wives or both; women learn that their 13-year-old daughters are strippers or their 60-year-old mothers are whores; fat people are poked and prodded and berated.
The original meaning is harsher and more in keeping with traditional Japanese culture: the stick is used to beat the dog, who should not have poked around.
Smith described it as "kicking the tires of my faith," and added that he considers both God and Jesus "friends" who would not be averse to having fun poked at them--especially when that fun is grounded in a fervent respect for their existence and power.
Henry Mitchell, the late, great, and I think, conservative garden writer (he smoked cigarettes in his garden, an act incomprehensible to liberals), poked fun at those who think they garden in "a natural way."
--who poked him in the ribs whenever he was on camera; his goofy stare would flit from his trough of nachos to the playing field.