Poking

My father is always poking his nose into my private life.

My mother is always poking her nose into my private life.

Tom was poking at the fire.

I must be careful with how I sit in this cheap IKEA office chair, to make sure that the two screws poking through the synthetic cover don't prick me in the thighs.

Stop poking me.

Stop poking me on Facebook.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. It is a seeking that he who wishes may know the cosmic secrets of the world and they that dwell therein.

Provoking Fadil was poking a stick at an angry bull.

Poking out over the heat shield, the Solar Probe Cup is one of two instruments on Parker Solar Probe that will not be protected by the heat shield.

A wound will never heal if you keep poking at it.