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.

  • Published before or during the festivities of Día de los Muertos, these calaveras carried poems that poked fun at socially prominent people such as politicians and the very wealthy.

  • Scheck, commentators agree, poked huge holes in the prosecution's claim that Woodward shook the baby and then dashed his head against a hard object.

  • As other reporters poked holes in the CNN expose, Van Buskirk confessed that he had "recovered the memory."

  • 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.


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