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Recent Examples of pokey Thirty-three years since its founder began cutting up fabrics in a pokey South London flat, the house of McQueen’s headquarters now inhabit a six-story, 30,000-square-foot building in London’s Clerkenwell. Hayley Maitland, Vogue, 16 Dec. 2024 This pokey lime green plant is a bit of a chameleon, changing colour when stressed by lack of water or bad weather. Katy Kelleher, refinery29.com, 29 July 2024 Calvin Klein’s racerback bralette is made from ultra-soft and stretch-infused cotton for optimal breathability, and it’s designed without pokey underwires, too. Emily Weaver, Peoplemag, 27 July 2024 Image: Cornell The researchers equipped their prototype robot with two different kinds of texture units: Goosebumps, which form rounded domes when inflated, and spikes, which include rigid little pokey bits. IEEE Spectrum, 16 May 2018 See All Example Sentences for pokey
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Noun
  • He is being held on $2 million bail, online jail records show.
    Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 8 Sep. 2025
  • He was eventually sentenced to six years in jail for defrauding investors.
    Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • My dad would always play documentaries about prison life and stuff that would come on Discovery ID or, every now and then, even national news segments.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Through the deal, prosecutors dropped the two murder charges — and shipped Henry, 26, off to prison for 10 years — in exchange for his plea.
    Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • At Parchman, the state’s troubled penitentiary, corrections workers were urging their colleagues to sign up.
    Kevin Collier, NBC news, 26 Aug. 2025
  • After his conviction, Gray was sent to Angola, one of the most violent penitentiaries in the country at the time.
    Richard A. Webster, ProPublica, 25 Aug. 2025

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“Pokey.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pokey. Accessed 12 Sep. 2025.

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