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."
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.
This one tends toward unlovably brazen pokes and shoves, yet there are moments (mostly in the script) when a higher sensibility can be glimpsed through all the galumphing crumminess.
And Newsweek pokes fun at "post-sensitive males" (see: Swingers ). They're more desperate than macho.
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.