poke around

1. Also, poke about. Look through things; also, make an investigation. For example, I was poking around the attic when I found these old photos, or The detective was poking about, tracking where she went on that fatal day. [Early 1800s] Also see nose about; poke one's nose into.

Example Sentences

So naturally, one of the first things I did was call up my favorite local restaurants and ask if I could poke around in their kitchens.

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Though Tesla’s board shouted down a Wall Street Journal report this spring that it had looked into finding a successor for Musk, it would be asinine not to poke around.

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When her friend and tintype mentor came to town, the pair went to Mills’ old property to poke around.

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His administration has gone on a firing spree, directing federal agencies to lay off the more than 200,000 probationary government workers, offering tens of thousands of federal employees a dubious buyout offer, and empowering an unelected billionaire to poke around in nearly every federal agency to find even more people to fire while also slashing congressionally approved budgets.

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Then he had a poke around in his box.

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