Use "poky" in a sentence
poky example sentences
poky
1. He entered the poky office and asked if he could have a suit dry-cleaned, only to receive a blank stare followed by slow-motion enlightenment
2. It was small and poky
3. It was always a mug’s game, trying to calculate whether surface streets or the subway would get you home faster, but he’d learned by trial and error not to overlook the transportational bird in the hand, especially not after midnight, and there would be something fitting, would there not, about ending this night and this year on a poky and prosaic city bus, amid the alcoholic, the epileptic, and the otherwise damned, in mortuary fluorescence, on a sticky floor, in the seat nearest the driver?
4. Anyway, the sneakers came in handy; after waiting fifteen minutes for the poky Sunday morning local, he actually did end up jogging down to Bryant Park, where, provided the forecast held, he’d arranged to meet Tadelis at seven
5. I was familiar with poky apartments of this sort, scarcely furnished, yet with pretensions to comfort: there is invariably a soft sofa from the second-hand market, which is dangerous to move ; a washing-stand and an iron bed shut off by a screen
6. and of danger, the country of ambitious beggars in its upper classes, while the immense majority live in poky little huts