- present participle of poke.
poking
Example Sentences
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It’s the reason so many of us walk to our cars with our keys poking through our fingers, why we tense up when someone walks too closely behind us on a dark street.
From Slate ● Oct. 9, 2026
“For some reason that no one can figure out, I really, really like you,” Johnson’s Trump told Mamdani, poking fun at the unlikely rapport between the president and the democratic socialist mayor.
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026
Axe is bringing back its Kilo, Touch and Anarchy scents in a social-first campaign poking fun at its early-2000s appeal to teenage boys.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
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 wheeled out the stool and settled down, poking and prodding Fig’s trembling girth.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
