poke along
Example Sentences
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Let’s try one question: Is it right for bicyclists to cut to the head of a line of cars at a stoplight, then poke along, impeding traffic?
From Washington Post • Oct. 15, 2019
For now, we poke along on the ancient Big Spruce double, eyeing fresh lines tucked into the folds of the broad slope below.
From Time Magazine Archive
When the light turns green, they’ll poke along at a snail’s pace, holding up traffic while motorists wait for a chance to pass.
From Washington Post
They poke along in unpressurized DC-45 at 8,000 ft., doing 220 to 240 m.p.h. v.
From Time Magazine Archive
They then build a small hut, dig out a canoe from a cotton-wood tree, and in this poke along shore silently, in the evening, and set their traps.
From The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West by Bonneville, Benjamin Louis Eulalie de
