How to use poke about in a sentence? Find typical usage patterns (collocations)/phrases/context for "poke about" and check conjugation/comparative form for "poke about". Mastering all the usages of "poke about" from sentence examples published by news publications.
The leaves of his rice plants poke about a foot above water.
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It's also available on most of the usual podcast platforms, so have a poke about, see what you find.
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He'd told Poke about his home the first night they fucked, and how he longed for his family, and Poke'd looked at his skin and rubbed Emil's elbows and tried his best to conjure something in the neighborhood of empathy.
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They looked out for one another well enough—like when Google'd told Poke about dragging his heels, so he wouldn't track shit from the street into a john's house; or when Nacho'd advised, after staring for months, that Poke find himself a shirt that didn't scream pato.
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An old man burned in hell. His three sons set out to seek their fortune. The two older would have nothing to do with the youngest son, whom they said was fit for nothing but to sit and poke about in ashes. The youngest brought a kneading-trough, the only thing their parents had left behind, which his brothers had not bothered with.
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The red-top look of the site means there have been cases of the site's fictional, satirical news stories being misinterpreted as real news items. In January 2012, a number of French news organisations including Le Parisien and L’Express reported on an August 2011 article by The Poke about a BBC Sign language interpreter being fired from her job for 'fabricating news' as a genuine story. French radio broadcasters RTL and France Info also reported the story as real, and television broadcaster Canal + featuring the fictitious 'scandal' on an evening news programme.
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The newspaper noted that a few drops of oil two or three times a week ensures tappets run for a long time without shake otherwise they soon become noisy. The following good points were noted by The Times: :easy to reach magneto, dynamo, starter and carburettor :clutch spigot and the withdrawal mechanism automatically lubricated :all brakes have easy to reach hand adjustments :no grease-cups but spring-controlled ball-valve greasers throughout the chassis, special gun supplied :easy to reach tools, access does not disturb a passenger :fuel tank at the back has a gauge easy to read when the luggage grid is fully loaded :fuel tank fuel filter funnel :all-weather hood; the side-curtain beside the driver has access for a signalling arm Accordingly, The Times also noted that "it is not necessary to lift floorboards and poke about with an oilcan before a journey". The car was thought to be moderately fast, best run but it seemed to have a minor fault and should have reached . Seating was assessed to be comfortable with unusually generous knee room in the front seat.
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