How to Use pokey in a Sentence

pokey

noun

• That's how Mitchell and the rest of them ended up in the federal pokey.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 18 Oct. 2017
• Poke isn’t pronounced like something one does with a stick, or as in doing the hokey pokey.
  — Julie Jargon, WSJ, 15 Sep. 2017
• The microbus was underpowered and a little pokey on the freeways of the '50s and '60s.
  — Ben Stewart, Popular Mechanics, 26 Apr. 2017
• The rink is a favorite of area students and made headlines in 2015 for being the place where police killed the hokey pokey.
  — Jameelah Nasheed, Teen Vogue, 17 July 2018
• Third-party chargers are capped to a pokey 5W charging speed.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 23 Oct. 2018
• Days earlier, Mueller had asked a judge to revoke Manafort’s $10 million bail and put him in the pokey.
  — Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 10 June 2018
• Researchers discovered that puff adders in the wild waggle both their tongues and their tails to lure prey, like a prolonged and high-stakes hokey-pokey dance.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 7 Feb. 2017
• Thirty-five at the time, the Russian immigrant went to the pokey for three years, having pleaded guilty to wire fraud, mail fraud and making threats on the phone.
  — David Segal, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2017
• Former Uber self-driving boss Anthony Levandowski could find himself in the pokey for a spell.
  — Adam Lashinsky, Fortune, 30 July 2020
• Cage was, however, ardently expressing his deep-seated disdain -- for the hokey-pokey.
  — Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 18 Jan. 2018
• The majority of Americans want a second special counsel appointed because of all the hokey pokey.
  — Fox News, 3 May 2018
• But another shoe is yet to drop: next week, a different judge will sentence him on two conspiracy counts, charges that each carry a maximum of five years, which could potentially add years to his time in the pokey.
  — Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 10 Mar. 2019
• The tests paid off, however, and Flight Simulator 98 quelled reviewers’ complaints about pokey performance.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 26 Feb. 2023
• Kia claims a pokey 62-mph acceleration estimate of 9.4 seconds.
  — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 28 Mar. 2023
• Not only has the tanker saga included everything from back room deals to dramatic reversals to heated Congressional hearings to military officials going to the pokey.
  — Noah Shachtman, WIRED, 5 Aug. 2010

Last Updated: 11 Aug 2024