How to Use poke around in a Sentence

poke around

verb
  • The woman poked around, to no avail.
    — H. C. Wilentz, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026
  • No poking around with a tiny brush.
    — Bon Appétit, Bon Appetit Magazine, 7 Jan. 2026
  • The Red Sox might be poking around by then.
    — Grant Brisbee, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2026
  • That day, a lone killdeer was spotted in the field, poking around the mud.
    — Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The first squirrel came over a little bluff and poked around on the ground for pecans.
    — Charles Elliott, Outdoor Life, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Some bargain hunters poked around, while a handful of old-timers walked the halls for exercise.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 1 May 2026
  • Few people enjoy someone else poking around their mouth.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The tech has been around for decades but has been honed over time to no longer require patients to stay awake as doctors poke around in their brains.
    — Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 30 Apr. 2026
  • As far as Leo is concerned, to go poking around your eyes is to court infection, which is fine with you.
    — Literary Hub, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Other team executives have poked around on these topics, too.
    — Alec Lewis, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Afterward, attendees poked around for a poster to take, or asked to swap the depicted food items.
    — Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 12 Feb. 2026
  • Michael Silver spent some time with the Baltimore brain trust during the draft to poke around.
    — Chris Branch, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2026
  • The rangers poked around camp with flashlights, striking up conversations with people still awake, and left.
    — Denver Nicks, Rolling Stone, 14 Sep. 2025
  • The deceased was an almost-client of Honey’s, which sets her off poking around and looking for answers.
    — Lindsey Bahr, Boston Herald, 22 Aug. 2025
  • The Colorado Avalanche and Detroit Red Wings are among those who have poked around on him.
    — Chris Johnston, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2026
  • But if Rick later plucks something from behind that rock at the fire, are others going to start poking around looking for stuff?
    — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Hypocrisy, not rail spindles or dog poop, is top of the play’s agenda, and to poke around that subject the playwright has peopled his work with a collection of character types.
    — Greg Evans, Deadline, 21 Apr. 2026
  • The actors poke around, especially Millie.
    — Kate Aurthur, Variety, 13 Nov. 2025
  • More Local Antiquing Spots Part of the fun of heading to an area to shop is poking around at local antique shops.
    — Jennifer Prince, Southern Living, 30 Sep. 2025
  • There are decently unsettling moments as Mia’s quest leads her to poke around a decrepit former amusement park, the empty prison and other sites.
    — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Writing simple implementations, debugging messy edge cases or poking around in code that didn't quite behave as expected.
    — Daniel Gumucio, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
  • Larry Suzuki, 78, was poking around Detroit with his wife of 54 years, who grew up in Garden City.
    — Neal Rubin, Freep.com, 6 Sep. 2025
  • That was all well and good, at least until the FCC started poking around the NFL’s media rights strategy.
    — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 1 May 2026
  • The one that’s going to be easier to recover from before I get slapped and pushed and poked around by OKC for 10-12 days.
    — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 6 Apr. 2026
  • The room, woodsy and rustico, with checkerboard floors and occasional Scandi flourishes, feels built for living in and for poking around, a please-touch museum of artful objects and accents.
    — Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2025
  • Still, why would a government more than six thousand miles away from a suburban Pennsylvania town that has fewer than ten thousand inhabitants be poking around in a distant municipal water system?
    — Sue Halpern, New Yorker, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Regulations are also in the Code of Federal Regulations, which isn’t exactly a place most sportsmen or women poke around in before loading up to go fishing.
    — Christine Peterson, Outdoor Life, 18 Dec. 2025
  • Main Street has a bookshop with a large children’s section, a toy store, and a general store to poke around in, while Smugglers’ Notch offers seriously cool climbable rock formations and unbeatable fall foliage.
    — Kris Ann Valdez, Parents, 6 Dec. 2025
  • While Tranter’s poking around the deadly antique, a high-ranking police officer named Zuzana (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) is focused on protecting the public.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Some poking around on the internet shows that Eden and Greene were at the MGM Grand's Celebrity Room in December 1973.
    — Jordan Hoffman, EW.com, 1 Sep. 2025

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