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Example sentences for: poking

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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.
Erected in the 16th century, it guarded the bay against pirate ships — you can still see the ancient cannons poking through the crenellated walls.
Was director Peter Weir poking gentle fun at Seaside, Fla., when he set The Truman Show there?
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."
Critics complain that Los Angeles architect Barton Myers' postmodern building, consisting of concert halls and theaters, looks like a "cineplex" (Mark Swed, the Los Angeles Times ), with interiors that verge on kitsch (examples of overkill: steel rods poking out of ceilings; floors inlaid with colored stones).