Pronunciation of the English word poke.
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1. | Poke bowls and poké balls are not the same thing. | |
2. | I bought a pig in a poke yesterday. | |
3. | I don't mean to poke my nose into your affairs. | |
4. | Don't poke fun at foreigners. | |
5. | Yesterday I bought a pig in a poke. | |
6. | Tom was afraid that Mary might poke her eye out, so he told her to be careful. | |
7. | To poke someone in a wounded spot. | |
8. | I don't poke my nose into other people's business. | |
9. | There are whole cultures where understatement is bred in the bone. In New England one hears as satisfaction: "It's better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick." | |
10. | Poke the fire. It's going out. |