Exempel på poked

• Predictable fun is poked at some of the more colourful characters.

• I poked my head out of the covers and stared over the edge of the bed.

• Three stereotypes stood out in this group because they poked fun at older people.

• The omission reflects the hubris of the academic wordsmiths who shaped it : in their scholarly world of tongues poked out at reality, describing is perceived as the same as controlling.

• Neither the older people nor the students liked advertisements that ridiculed or poked fun at older people, or presented them as being out of touch with reality and unattractive.

• She poked her neck and face far forward and had a tendency to slouch, letting the -ute hang to the right side at what appeared an extremely uncomfor table angle.

• Because they were so busy trying to fill the holes the government had poked in the safety net, unions had little time left to make wage demands.

• Compare, for example, "sophisticated," which would have adequately poked fun at such lowbrow taste by playing on the common equation of sophistication with something positive to which most would aspire.

• But she might have poked her umbrella, or thrown her heavy handbag, through a window and said that she did it justifiably.

• All kinds of gibes could no doubt be poked at us.

• I do not want to see trained technical people coming into industry and being poked into offices.

• He poked a good deal of fun at us on this side.

• Some people say that it has poked its nose in far too much and has not given to individuals the freedom which they desire.

• Recently the association poked its nose into political affairs.

• He may be a supercilious fellow, but it did him and his party no credit when he poked fun at such a serious subject.