How to Use poky in a Sentence

poky

adjective
Definition of pokynext
Synonyms for pokynext
  • 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

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