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Example sentences for: pokes

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… An item pokes fun at Hollywood's newest excess: "pity brokers."
Maxim pokes fun at its progenitors but with considerable ironic affection.
Geraldine Ferraro's resignation as co-host of Crossfire , to run for the Senate from New York, has occasioned the usual pokes at CNN's nightly political interview-cum-debate program.
And Newsweek pokes fun at "post-sensitive males" (see: Swingers ). They're more desperate than macho.
Bruce Morton, who ends each Late Edition show with a pithy television essay on culture and politics, pokes fun this week at the fatuous use of millennial themes to sell products--from Millennium Barbie to Millennium Budweiser to M & M's, the "official candy of the millennium," and so on.