poke around

Example Sentences

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Vandegrift recommends joining a local mycology club to go on hikes and poke around for, as mycologist David Arora put it, "All That the Rain Promises and More..."

From Salon

They head off, phones at the ready, to poke around the outside of a derelict out-house along the river bank.

From BBC

Poke around your pantry and come up with a couple of ideas for meals and snacks that wouldn’t require you to open your fridge or freezer or use electricity-powered heat to cook.

From Los Angeles Times

All of this prompted her to poke around in LAION-5B, the open-source dataset that Stable Diffusion had been “trained” on.

From Slate

Nate is troubled enough by the sheriff’s non-response that he begin to poke around, whereupon he is almost instantly plunged into a peanut-boil cauldron of trouble.

From Los Angeles Times