poke about वाक्य

Although an investigating " policeman insists he saw a Chinaman poking about in the front room, " when he entered the room " there was no one there ."
"I've seen her sitting with the baby on the breast poking about to find a vein . ` Nice fat veins when your tits are big and milky,'she said ."
High tide here is the best time to see grebes, ducks and even loons, and low tide brings out sandpipers and others poking about the exposed mud flats for food.
*After poking about some more, I'm convinced that this series is indeed notable but its age makes finding online sources that can prove this sufficiently to others . . . difficult.
Curious snowboarders still shaking off the powder and day-trippers with bellies bulging from Sunday brunch poke about the place as Sprackland and pals determine where to set up a refreshment table.

After poking about among the thousands of bits and pieces Watt had squirreled away, Michael Wright, the museum's curator of mechanical engineering, has uncovered a furtive side to the pioneer of steam.
To the vast majority of Chinese, who typically care little for the rights of prisoners, Wu was a self-serving hype artist who was only poking about to draw attention to his cause.
Local police patrol the terminals and a host of federal agencies poke about, from Immigration and Naturalization Service and U . S . Customs Service agents to Department of Food and Agriculture inspectors.
Why ( in light of official policy ) do we have nameless anonymous WP editors, whose medical knowledge we do not trust, poking about the journals for meta analysis of randomized controlled trials?
Ruth filled her sketch pad and poked about the pond while I fished, finding an otter slide, where the scat was laden with indigestible bits of crayfish, a species stocked in the pond in 1954.