- present participle of poke.
poking
Example Sentences
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Gay needs to establish himself at the top of the England order and played handsome drives in his 33 before poking Mohammad Ali to second slip.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
He spotted a begonia poking through a burned fence on his neighbor’s property and snapped a photo, and soon he was accumulating more and more similar images.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
The straw has a strange menacing string running through it and poking out of the tip, and the cup’s utility is squished into near-unrecognizability.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
Investors began to wonder whether it was all too good to be true, and started poking holes in the narrative.
From Barron's ● May 22, 2026
By the time the Sunday puzzle arrived, she was grumbling at the puzzle and poking harder with the holotack.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
