How do you use Pokey in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like poky or slammer, plus the exact meaning.
Pokey in a sentence
Pokey meaning
- of small volume, cramped (of a room, house)
- slow
- fast
Synonyms of Pokey
Using Pokey
- The main meaning on this page is: of small volume, cramped (of a room, house) | slow | fast
- Useful related words include: poky, slammer, clink, gaol.
- In the example corpus, pokey often appears in combinations such as: hokey pokey, pokey audio.
Context around Pokey
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 8 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 16 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Pokey
- In this selection, "pokey" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 20.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, hokey, kims, strip, audio, havelka and hat stand out and add context to how "pokey" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a hokey pokey dance activity and called hokey pokey men who. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "pokey" sits close to words such as aav, abdicating and abductor, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with pokey
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
It’s the NHV hokey-pokey. (6 words)
Pokey's artistic style is deliberately crude, even childish. (9 words)
Gumby's principal sidekick is Pokey, a talking orange pony. (10 words)
He recalled how his youngest daughter Sadie, who thought the crash she, too, was involved in “was like a rollercoaster ride”, struggled during a Father’s Day event at her daycare, during a Hokey Pokey dance activity with the parents and kids. (42 words)
An architectural wonder perched high above the slums of Seoul, with views not of urinating drunks but of luxurious lawns and starlit skies, this wealthy house is everything the Kims’ pokey dwelling is not: elegant, angular and weirdly isolated. (39 words)
The Philadelphia Almanac and Citizen's Manual offers a different explanation, that the sandwich was created by early-twentieth-century street vendors called "hokey-pokey men", who sold antipasto salad, meats, cookies and buns with a cut in it. (39 words)
Example sentences (16)
In discussions and message boards dedicated to Pokey, Havelka revealed that Pokey was originally intended as a parody of another MS Paint comic about a penguin.
At this time of year, though, perhaps a pokey hat would only be for the hardy.
He recalled how his youngest daughter Sadie, who thought the crash she, too, was involved in “was like a rollercoaster ride”, struggled during a Father’s Day event at her daycare, during a Hokey Pokey dance activity with the parents and kids.
Load times varied between fast and pokey seemingly depending on the day.
An architectural wonder perched high above the slums of Seoul, with views not of urinating drunks but of luxurious lawns and starlit skies, this wealthy house is everything the Kims’ pokey dwelling is not: elegant, angular and weirdly isolated.
Then you do the hokey pokey and you turn yourself around.
The Pokey LaFarge concert originally scheduled for Saturday, May 9, at the Historic Earle Theatre has been rescheduled for Saturday, Jan.
You do the Hokey Pokey, turn yourself around, and then you smash the pool table you just built to bits with a sledgehammer.
It’s the NHV hokey-pokey.
And I’m sitting at the table with a sledgehammer and singing the “Hokey Pokey” just came out because I was incredibly frustrated by the song.
Gumby's principal sidekick is Pokey, a talking orange pony.
In one strip, Pokey's "son" appears, created as part of a science experiment.
Pokey's artistic style is deliberately crude, even childish.
The Atari made use of the embedded POKEY audio chip.
The Philadelphia Almanac and Citizen's Manual offers a different explanation, that the sandwich was created by early-twentieth-century street vendors called "hokey-pokey men", who sold antipasto salad, meats, cookies and buns with a cut in it.
To compensate for this, GCC’s engineers allowed games to include a POKEY audio chip in the cartridge which substantially improved the audio quality.
Common combinations with pokey
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: