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:

Erected in the 16th century, it guarded the bay against pirate ships — you can still see the ancient cannons poking through the crenellated walls.
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."
The WP runs a story inside poking fun at the list of top 100 most important news stories of all time released yesterday by a panel of journalists.
Operators are standing by, presumably poking one another in the ribs and smirking.
He told ABC, "They're pulling on their tails and pulling on their ears and poking in their eyes, and doing lots of things, and you know, you have to have a pretty long fuse to tolerate that."