pokey

Example Sentences

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She’s a big personality, chatty, colorfully dressed, a ray of sunshine, easily distracted, insanely friendly; she offers a killer a cookie even as he’s being packed off to the pokey.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 2024

Family and adult-only fun include roller disco night and open skate hours with the hokey pokey, limbo and partner skate events.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 12, 2023

According to the lawyers working on behalf of Dominion, Fox's lawyers have been pokey when it comes to turning over evidence in a timely fashion for the ongoing defamation case.

From Salon • Apr. 12, 2023

While Proud Boys yelled and shoved outside the entrance, the children inside Loyalty Bookstores laughed, did the hokey pokey and danced as drag queen Charlemagne Chateau, dressed as a princess, read stories, they said.

From Washington Post • Feb. 21, 2023

When the hokey pokey is done, I slip out to the back patio to see if Ray is around and if he got anything off Mom’s run-over phone.

From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko