Words similar to pokes

Example sentences for: pokes

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

"This time he even pokes fun at it."
He also pokes fun at evolutionary biologists, who so confidently ascribe all our behavior to genetic programming.
Maxim pokes fun at its progenitors but with considerable ironic affection.
The article you saw was this month's edition of Keeping Tabs, a lighthearted monthly column I write for Slate that sums up--and pokes fun at--what the supermarket tabloids have been writing about for the previous month.
It pokes endless fun at the corporatization of all aspects of life (think of Duff Gardens, a mind-numbing, totalitarian theme park; or the robotic Schwarzenegger clone known as McBain; or Malibu Stacy, the Barbie-like doll Lisa Simpson lives for) even as its characters have become among the most recognizable icons of corporate culture.