How to Use pokey in a Sentence

pokey

noun
  • Poke isn’t pronounced like something one does with a stick, or as in doing the hokey pokey.
    — Julie Jargon, WSJ, 15 Sep. 2017
  • That's how Mitchell and the rest of them ended up in the federal pokey.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 18 Oct. 2017
  • This pokey lime green plant is a bit of a chameleon, changing colour when stressed by lack of water or bad weather.
    — Katy Kelleher, refinery29.com, 29 July 2024
  • Some are funny, some shy, some energetic, some pokey and some can be all those things in one day.
    — Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2021
  • Third-party chargers are capped to a pokey 5W charging speed.
    — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 23 Oct. 2018
  • There will also be live music, limbo, hokey pokey and races, according to the event page.
    — Briana Rice, Cincinnati.com, 28 Feb. 2020
  • But the laptop's main problem is its pokey hardware performance.
    — Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Researchers discovered that puff adders in the wild waggle both their tongues and their tails to lure prey, like a prolonged and high-stakes hokey-pokey dance.
    — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 7 Feb. 2017
  • That harks back to the stagecoach or pokey train eras when a governor could be incommunicado for days or weeks.
    — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2023
  • When weighed down by children or packages, the bike can get a little pokey, especially when climbing uphill.
    — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 8 Aug. 2019
  • The rink is a favorite of area students and made headlines in 2015 for being the place where police killed the hokey pokey.
    — Jameelah Nasheed, Teen Vogue, 17 July 2018
  • Six years before this drama unfolded, Beyoncé was on the other side of the awards-show hokey-pokey.
    — Paul Grein, Billboard, 19 Aug. 2019
  • Days earlier, Mueller had asked a judge to revoke Manafort’s $10 million bail and put him in the pokey.
    — Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 10 June 2018
  • The microbus was underpowered and a little pokey on the freeways of the '50s and '60s.
    — Ben Stewart, Popular Mechanics, 26 Apr. 2017
  • Former Uber self-driving boss Anthony Levandowski could find himself in the pokey for a spell.
    — Adam Lashinsky, Fortune, 30 July 2020
  • Thirty-five at the time, the Russian immigrant went to the pokey for three years, having pleaded guilty to wire fraud, mail fraud and making threats on the phone.
    — David Segal, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2017
  • The majority of Americans want a second special counsel appointed because of all the hokey pokey.
    — Fox News, 3 May 2018
  • Data transfer rates are a little pokey when compared to today, around 5MBps theoretical and much less in practice.
    — Chris Wilkinson, Ars Technica, 11 Dec. 2020
  • The Embraceable Bra provides the support of underwire cups without an uncomfortably firm or pokey feeling.
    — Theresa Holland, Travel + Leisure, 15 Dec. 2023
  • Calvin Klein’s racerback bralette is made from ultra-soft and stretch-infused cotton for optimal breathability, and it’s designed without pokey underwires, too.
    — Emily Weaver, Peoplemag, 27 July 2024
  • Not only has the tanker saga included everything from back room deals to dramatic reversals to heated Congressional hearings to military officials going to the pokey.
    — Noah Shachtman, WIRED, 5 Aug. 2010

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