1.   They poke burning sticks at me.

2.   Boys with closely cropped hair poke sticks at cattle grazing along the red dirt roads.

3.   Carbonneau poked his stick and hit the puck, knocking it away from a Red Wings player and keeping it alive.

4.   Facing more pressure than one could poke a stick at, Marion produced her finest moment.

5.   He searched by shoveling or poking a stick into the reeking piles then sniffing the end to see if he had hit a body.

6.   We need to poke the stick back in their face.

7.   That drew further outcries, with one incensed viewer comparing Endemol to a zookeeper poking a stick at caged monkeys.