variants
or pokey
pokier; pokiest
Examples of poky in a Sentence
frustrated with the poky traffic during rush hour
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The rearmost port supports the 10Gbps USB 3.2 Gen 2 standard, while the forward-most port supports the poky, retro 480Mbps USB 2.0 standard.
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Joe Osborne, PC Magazine, 10 Mar. 2026
His studio flat was dingy and poky and too full with all his books, which his mother refused to keep for him any longer.
—Tessa Hadley, New Yorker, 25 Jan. 2026
Drew and Lucy Moore lived on Sylvan, past the green house with all the dogs, in a poky little Queen Anne fixer-upper on a half lot.
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The movie won seven Oscars, including Best Picture, and did well at the box office despite a poky pace and a three-hour running time.
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Joe Osborne, PC Magazine, 10 Mar. 2026
His studio flat was dingy and poky and too full with all his books, which his mother refused to keep for him any longer.
—Tessa Hadley, New Yorker, 25 Jan. 2026
Drew and Lucy Moore lived on Sylvan, past the green house with all the dogs, in a poky little Queen Anne fixer-upper on a half lot.
—Literary Hub, 17 Oct. 2025
The movie won seven Oscars, including Best Picture, and did well at the box office despite a poky pace and a three-hour running time.
—Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 17 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for poky
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“Poky.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/poky. Accessed 23 Mar. 2026.
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poky
adjective
variants
or pokey
pokier; pokiest
1
: being small and cramped
a poky room
2
: so slow as to be annoying
pokiness
noun
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