How to Use poky in a Sentence

poky

adjective

• The room in question is a poky box at the back of a narrow two-bedroom apartment in Tbilisi.
  — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 6 July 2022
• Noonan picked up the cafetière from her desk and brought it into the station’s poky little kitchen.
  — Colin Barrett, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2021
• The spot was miles from anywhere, on the side of a hill whose poky desert plants scrape anyone who walks by, and over which wild horses keep watch.
  — Sarah Scoles, Popular Science, 5 Jan. 2021
• The bralette is wireless and unlined, with nothing itchy or poky to cause problems during the day.
  — Annie Burdick, Peoplemag, 25 Aug. 2022
• Two years ago, says a longtime resident, the site of the mall was a swamp, and Mae Sot was a poky little border town with two small grocery stores.
  — The Economist, 18 July 2017
• Newsom and the Legislature should agree on a plan this summer — something more like the State Water Project than the poky bullet train.
  — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2021
• Acceleration is on the poky end of the scale, but when the Iltis is finally at speed, a blustery wind swirls through the bare metal cabin.
  — Brendan McAleer, Car and Driver, 2 Oct. 2022
• Roy’s dazed musings and Ad Astra’s poky pace frequently place it on the wrong side of the divide between thoughtful and inert.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 18 Sep. 2019
• But like an errant, poky sensor in their comfy nests, birds may not like having a drone watching their every move.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 4 Apr. 2016
• The 53-year-old lives alone in a modest apartment, cycles to his poky office in The Hague and takes time off from running the country to teach social studies at a local school.
  — The Economist, 11 July 2020
• The maximum reported download speed was 93 Mbps; the upload max was a far pokier 8 Mbps, which would help explain the snags with the FaceTime calls.
  — Edward C. Baig, USA TODAY, 11 May 2017
• Don’t expect such a humble drive to crack our list of the best SSDs, but make no mistake: The performance of even the pokiest solid-state drives leaves the fastest mechanical in the dust.
  — Brad Chacos, PCWorld, 30 July 2018
• Even the glossiest set of molars conjures up images of blood, sharp poky metal objects, and drills and wires trying to forcibly bend them into submission.
  — Kathleen Hou, The Cut, 7 July 2017
• On the poky Murano streets that snake with canals, dozens of glassmaking houses are still active, and each operates with a staunch dedication to the craft.
  — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 27 Mar. 2021
• The partners’ goal was making underwriting, the poky part in the middle, fully electronic.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 2 Sep. 2020
• One New Hampshire tester brushed its 75-denier polyester face through poky young evergreens, shouldered an ax, and sawed branches while doing trail work on Mount Moosilauke.
  — Outside Online, 27 May 2022
• Base powertrain is pretty poky, buzzy engine sounds under heavy throttle, not as fuel efficient in our testing as last year's model.
  — Car and Driver, 22 Feb. 2023
• The floor plan remained the same, but materials were upgraded, grilles and finishings redone, poky windows removed, moldings added, mantels replaced, and so on.
  — Camille Okhio, ELLE Decor, 17 Aug. 2022
• Breed also took Reiskin to task for Muni’s equipment failures, poky buses and allegations made earlier this year that managers were mistreating female employees.
  — Phil Matier, SFChronicle.com, 17 Nov. 2019

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024