poke out
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.60 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "1886, Wilkie Collins, The Evil Genius, London: Chatto & Windus, Volume 1, Before the Story, Part 4, p. 41, Here’s the Queen, my dears, in her gilt coach, drawn by six horses. Do you see her sceptre poking out of the carriage window? She governs the nation with that."
- "“Fred’s great, perfectly great,” she said, looking down at the toe of her slipper, poking out from her pink tulle skirt."
- "A big round grey rock, like the upper half of an egg, poked out of the water about a mile from the stony headland."
- "Near-synonym: pop out"
- "As they gazed, a white face, wet with the sweat of fear, poked out and stared down upon them with eyes in which the late terror still lived."
- "One by one five mouths poked out of the shells, demanding to be fed […]"