poke a hole

That I, of all people, had poked a hole in it.

He poked a hole beside the line of the river, under the circle.

One of the monsters had poked a hole in the boat.

Something has poked a hole through her right arm between elbow and shoulder.

And one year the tree broke the ceiling, poked a hole right through it.

Poke a hole in the center to allow the steam to escape.

We poked a hole in the skin or peel of the apple.

They poked a hole in his heart, but I guess the doctors plugged that.

He used a stick to poke a hole in the two upper corners.

Last week, though, Suzuki tried to poke a hole in that wall of virtue.

Lower heat, poke a hole in the solid mass and continue to simmer for 1 hour.

As a last resort she took the advice of a friend and poked a hole in the ceiling to give the water somewhere to go.

Others poke a hole through the middle of each fry-bread round before cooking.

Or poke a hole through the good sister's skull.

Does the average user have to poke a hole in his/her firewall at home to make this work?

But if anything seemed to poke a hole in his confidence last season, it was playing against his old team.

"Let's poke a hole in their gas bag," proposed Sam.

Later that day I took an ice pick from the kitchen drawer and poked a hole in the wall of my closet.

Something was poking a hole in her side.

"Has anyone thought about the potential ecological consequences of poking a hole in the barrier?

Several hunks of plaster did come loose, however, and at one point someone poked a hole in the wall.

Poking a hole in any part of your body carries a risk of infection.

They poked a hole in that, too, and it's dying."

"If you poke a hole in a ship, water rushes in."

"Perhaps, but you've been trying to poke a hole in it for several days now, and you haven't succeeded.