Sentences with phrase «by poking»

I started by poking around some of my favorite, albeit expensive websites like Pottery Barn and Restoration Hardware.

Children are commonly injured by poking objects inside appliances or electrical power points, or by playing with appliances...

Samsung starts out by poking fun at iPhones running out of space over the years, thanks to Apple's constant use of 16 GB of storage.

But we learned a lot just by poking around.

These courses will allow you to release all your driving frustrations by poking fun at the often ridiculous driving system.

But the Guardian has managed to get a laugh out of me by poking fun at the recent Twitter obsession in the media (represented in the Globe by stories like Margaret Wente's «Ego Tweeto, Ergo Sum» and Ian Brown's musings that twittering is motivated by a fear of death) with their story:

You can see the impact of habitat loss on local climate by poking a stick into the parched soils of the Brazilian cerrado or wandering along the boundary of the expanding Sahel Desert in Africa.

At the same time the game's world is filled with hidden items and even extra party members can be found by poking around a bit.

This is done by poking, groping, and patting them down despite their annoyance and pleas to stop.

You can find out so much about the world of Pyre just by poking around and hovering over everything.

Lift the skin gently, and form a triangular «tent» by poking your index finger of your dominant hand between and slightly below your thumb and fingers.

This test is performed by poking the skin gently with a needle.

Tough working dogs, they're hardwired to herd things by poking, barking, nudging, and nipping, and this can intrude on normal family life.

You can easily work coconut oil into your dog's dental care routine by poking holes in veggies, filling them with coconut oil, and freezing before giving them to your dog.

While young children may mean no harm, depending on the age of the kids, they may treat your puppy like a stuffed toy by poking eyes, pulling fur, chasing, picking up by one leg.

Nina has a sincere dedication to assisting writers by poking the thought process of each student, waking their desire and courage to step forward into Author Status.

While this may be something to do with my old - school attitude towards what constitutes a book, I think there's also an issue with devices that are partially touch - sensitive: Their user interfaces are sort of «neither fish nor fowl» – they require a conscious toggling between the things you can achieve by poking a finger directly at the thing you want to do something and poking a finger at something other than the thing you want to do something.

Posada's images of calaveras amused the public by poking fun at politicians.

Classroom Problem Solver: Students Who «Bother» Their Classmates Students «bother» their classmates in a variety of ways: by poking, tripping, pushing, interrupting, and ridiculing them.

If it all ends up coming together successfully, the film gets to have its cake and eat it too, wrapping itself in the familiar and cozy confines of the standard fare while positioning itself as the cool alternative by poking fun, even if it might not be all that much of an alternative at the end of the day.

The director Doug Liman takes advantage of Cruise in a fascinating way (much as he did with the star in Edge of Tomorrow, the duo's last collaboration): by poking at his inherent charisma and peeling it back, mocking the very idea of the American cowboy hero at the center of his boisterous but refreshingly cynical tale.

Second, he loves to bring visibility to issues (large and small) by poking a bit of fun at the evil doers who wield unnecessary influence and control over weaker parties.

No, you read that correctly, the creator of Clerks and Dogma will be returning to a duo that has made an appearance in most of his films by poking at Hollywood yet again with Jay and Silent -LSB-...]

The aim of the revisionist production is to restore Trumbo's reputation posthumously by poking fun at HUAC and other self - righteous bullies who had taken delight at ruining him, particularly John Wayne (David James Elliott) and gossip columnist Hedda Hopper (Mirren).

He seems to have made a game out of staying out of the spotlight, though, as evidenced by poking fun at himself via Simpsons cameos.

In terms of quality, Weinstein, Craven and the crew pulled off their return to Woodsboro, but not as an honest sequel; it was more of a cheap shot, scrambling for laughs by poking fun at itself.

The aim of the revisionist production is to restore Trumbo's reputation posthumously by poking fun at HUAC and other self - righteous bullies who had taken delight in ruining him, particularly John Wayne (David James Elliott) and gossip columnist Hedda Hopper (Mirren).

It's a wonderful, insightful, revealing and unforgettable piece of filmmaking that rips apart both its lead character and the movie world around it by poking a sharp satirical stick directly into heart and holds it there with an entertaining, captivating grin.

After the Duplass brothers» no - budget 2005 debut feature The Puffy Chair put them on the map, they followed up by poking fun at their own DIY aesthetic in Baghead, which follows four friends who want to make a movie, but are creatively bankrupt.

Ford began by poking fun at the technical language Lucas wrote in the scripts, noting how he would need multiple takes during filming.

The chief offender, however, is the opponent AI, which regularly pays no mind to your presence on each circuit and is particularly deft at muscling you onto the grass and turning your car around by poking its nose into gaps it really should have thought better of.

Begin to turn the turn pieces right side out by poking the corners in first.

Snow has left (with a weatherman's hint of more on the weekend) The spring early plants are doing their best to get started by poking those first leaves through.

They cause a frat party in my gut by poking holes in the lining, so I need to avoid them.

Test to see whether it's done by poking a thin skewer in the centre of the cake — if it's done it'll come out clean with no cake sticking to it.

Pour the cake batter into the cake pans and bake at 375 degrees Fahrenheit for 20 - 30 minutes (one of mine too longer than the other — test doneness by poking in a toothpick.

Test by poking a toothpick into the middle.

This is a very special bonding time that should not be interrupted by poking and prodding.

This means rather than attacking an injury directly — by poking and prodding and manipulating an injured area head - on — surround the affected area with warmth, from your ankle and calf, up through your knee, and into your thigh and hip.

I added about 3 inches of water to the pot and steamed for about 20 minutes, then tested it after 20 minutes by poking it with a fork in several places to make sure it was all tender.

What I've found works best is to drain the coconut by poking a hole in one of the two «eyes» of the coconut then smashing the «chin» (the triangular shaped base) of the coconut against the concrete and it will split right open.

Roast sweet potatoes whole by poking them with a fork and cooking for 45 to 60 minutes in a 400 °F oven.

You can see the impact of habitat loss on local climate by poking a stick into the parched soils of the Brazilian cerrado or wandering along the boundary of the expanding Sahel Desert in Africa.

Individual female adult wasps (n = 50) of the sequenced strain (AsymC) were infected by poking with a 0.1 mm dissecting pin dipped in a bacterial culture containing an equal mixture (as measured by OD600) of Serratia marsecens and Enterococcus faecalis.

Antimicrobial peptides kill bacteria by poking holes in their cell membrane.

The animals were trained to focus their visual attention on a wall in the testing chamber with five ports and to respond to a brief flash of light within one port by poking their nose into that port.

Not surprisingly, many children gleefully dove into this task by poking, prodding, touching, feeling, eating — and yes, throwing — the nonsolids in order to understand what they were and make the correct association with the hypothetical names.

They demonstrated that a sheet of graphene, a lattice of carbon atoms one layer thick, could be used to differentiate between bases in a strand of DNA by poking a tiny hole in the sheet and threading DNA through it.

The birds annoy their prey by poking around the grub's large, sensitive mandibles.

Sang's team approached the problem by poking tiny holes into chicken eggs and injecting the embryos with viruses.