1.   Poke a hole in the dough, and then form it into a rounded shape.

2.   An organization representing retired military officers is poking holes in a General Accounting Office report on health care for military retirees.

3.   Another is poking holes in the plastic wrap on meat.

4.   As a last resort she took the advice of a friend and poked a hole in the ceiling to give the water somewhere to go.

5.   At the Muvico Paradise Cinemas in Davie, Fla., northwest of Miami, almost all the teen-agers swarming around the theater poked holes in the new policy.

6.   At times, the Libyan leader sounded like a seasoned defense lawyer poking holes in flimsy prosecution arguments, circumstantial evidence and the three key witnesses.

7.   Binnig said he realized early on that the silicon tip might be used to poke holes in a surface.

8.   A couple of days later, Ms. Stein said, the water poked another hole in the ceiling.

9.   A fun way to jazz up a hayrack, he said, is to cover it in sheet moss, poke holes in the sides and insert trailing plants.

10.   After the game, doctors poked a hole through his chest, inserting a tube so the lung could be reinflated.