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
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
In Nevada, where the roads are mostly flat, straight and empty, drivers never did like to poke along.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Comfortable!... very well, child, poke along, and be comfortable your own way ... but you certainly have a little spice of the mule in you."
From The Widow Barnaby Vol. II (of 3) by Trollope, Frances Eleanor
