Words similar to poking

Example sentences for: poking

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

Guess which parents are going to be poking their noses into the classroom all the time, to say nothing of turning "those garden chores into botany lessons."
While poking fun at Wolf's obsession with male power, critics insinuate that she's accumulating undue influence in the campaign.
You--sitting in a well-upholstered recliner, casually sipping something top-shelf and free of little umbrellas, poking lackadaisically at a morsel of takeout--have only to dance your fingertips across the keyboard to condemn us as we fall prey to writing "things prohibited in high schools" or "new ways to pick up interns."
Operators are standing by, presumably poking one another in the ribs and smirking.
This may give a better chance of success to the much-mocked millennium celebrations in Paris and London, the former involving the Eiffel Tower laying an egg and huge plastic fishes poking their heads out of the Seine, and the latter--as caustically emphasized in all of today's British newspapers--involving no known purpose at all apart from the building of a giant dome at Greenwich at a cost of more than $1 billion.