Example Sentences

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Despite those serious intentions, Angelenos have been poking fun at the “Great Green Bin Apocalypse of 2025,” as journalist and podcaster Alissa Walker framed the situation on Bluesky.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 16, 2025

A relentless barrage of Twitter memes have been poking fun at the queen’s demise.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 20, 2022

But Zhang’s memo raises questions about Facebook’s size, power, and accountability to its users — particularly its non-Western users — that outsiders have been poking at for years.

From The Verge • Sep. 16, 2020

“We have been poking at this issue at different directions for some time.”

From Washington Post • May 31, 2019

They may have been poking around half an hour, for all I know; I was keeping my eyes on my work and thinking of poor Walter.”

From The Boy Scouts of Lenox by Webster, Frank V.