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stroke

A stroke is when blood stops coming into your brain. I had a stroke after running so hard. A stroke is an action of hitting something lightly. A stroke is the person who sets the speed in a rowing crew. After years of training he was made stroke in the Oxford University crew. A stroke is something that happens without warning. She had a stroke of good luck playing cards and won 20 dollars.

stroke

If you stroke something, you touch something with the hand, and move your hand gently up it. She stroked his hair lovingly.

stroke

touch lightly and repeatedly, as with brushing motions He stroked his long beard (= shot) (sports) the act of swinging or striking at a ball with a club or racket or bat or cue or hand it took two strokes to get out of the bunker a good shot requires good balance and tempo he left me an almost impossible shot (= throw) the maximum movement available to a pivoted or reciprocating piece by a cam a light touch a light touch with the hands a sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain strike a ball with a smooth blow row at a particular rate treat gingerly or carefully You have to stroke the boss (golf) the unit of scoring in golf is the act of hitting the ball with a club Nicklaus won by three strokes the oarsman nearest the stern of the shell who sets the pace for the rest of the crew a single complete movement any one of the repeated movements of the limbs and body used for locomotion in swimming or rowing a mark made on a surface by a pen, pencil, or paintbrush she applied the paint in careful strokes (= accident, fortuity) anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause winning the lottery was a happy accident the pregnancy was a stroke of bad luck it was due to an accident or fortuity (= solidus) a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information

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stroke · verb

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Simple sentences

Tom just had a stroke.
I had a stroke last year.
The lion put an end to his prey with one stroke.
What a stroke of luck!
A lot of people buy lotteries dreaming of wealth at one stroke.
I have had a stroke before.
I always thought that a stroke was one of nature's ways to tell you that it's time to die.
It is easier for heaven and earth to disappear than for the least stroke of a pen to drop out of the Law.
This was the first stroke, but the second followed at once.
He had a stroke.
I had a stroke.
My grandmother had a stroke.
Tom had a stroke.
When I was twenty two years old, I was the master of the breast stroke.
He tied the world record for the hundred-meter breast-stroke.
Don't stroke the cat the wrong way.
It was a stroke of genius.
She had a stroke.

Movie subtitles

Alex? He could be having a stroke.
Eventually, we all met back in the dining room on the stroke of midnight.
And Katie's got no eyes, and no roof to her mouth, and when I go to see her in the home I stroke her hands in a special way and I think she knows me.
A fantastical being rushes on an astronomer who defends himself and with a stroke of his umbrella the Selenite bursts into a thousand pieces.
You've done a good stroke of business.
With this sword, Robert I'll swing a stroke from Norway down to Spain.
We only want to stroke his pretty neck.
I'll stroke it.
He is, and I fear the Commodore will have a stroke.
Step on that stroke.
I'll make a stay-in stroke or a sit-down strike, or whatever it is.
He that strikes the first stroke, I'll run him up to the hilts, as I-I-I am a soldier.
Be careful, Mr. Yardley, or you'll have a stroke.
Every time I take a stroke, I see her wretched face.
You know, Stanley can't swim a stroke.
Keep up your stroke, man.
For every whip stroke you have bestowed upon my beloved, may you suffer a year of woe.
No, Ching, I promised I'd meet her at the altar at the stroke of 12:00.
Why, not one angler in 50. can master the underhand stroke.
What happens at the stroke of 12:00?
Don't open it till the stroke of midnight, will you?
What a stroke of good fortune.
Double that stroke!
Had a stroke about two years ago, that's why he retired and came here to live in La Morte Rouge.
Twin Sword Style. though I had heard of one stroke swords. I lose if I show a chink in my armor.
He could be having a stroke.
Their first sword's thrust can be the master stroke.
At 11 precisely, on the stroke of the hour.
At the fourth stroke, it will be 12:13 a.m.
He had a stroke.
A stroke?

News and current affairs

Even though your ascension to the position of Prime Minister came in an awkward way because of Ariel Sharon's stroke, I believe that you have an opportunity to be part of a historic reconciliation.
In a bold stroke, it could devalue the currency and then join a monetary union with Brazil.
At a single stroke, Buffett has given purpose to his life.
In one stroke, Putin has jeopardized his considerable accomplishments.
This would risk overlaps and trade-offs between the two, or a cumulative burden of compromises that might become too great for Turks to accept, potentially wrecking both negotiations at one stroke.
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's disabling stroke has thrown Israeli politics into turmoil yet again.
Indeed, North Korea has become increasingly bold and impetuous ever since Kim became ill (probably from a stroke) in August 2008.
That Sharon's stroke could be compared - in terms of political consequences - with the assassination of Yitzak Rabin demonstrates that his personality had become associated with hope and security.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy's appointment of Bernard Kouchner as France's foreign minister was a brilliant political stroke.
But perhaps we should consider it a stroke of luck that these geniuses created their mess somewhere else.
Working in so uncompetitive a market is a real stroke of luck.
Most Chinese doctors and patients have, for example, long regarded acupuncture as an effective treatment for stroke, using it to improve motor, speech, and other functions that have been destroyed.
Almost all trials on acupuncture as a treatment for stroke conducted within China have been positive.
But another recent study done in the UK showed that research conducted in several countries was uniformly favorable to acupuncture as a treatment for the damage caused by stroke.
For example, the recent release of political prisoners in Belarus removed at a stroke one of the key reasons for the EU's hostility towards Lukashenko.
MONTREAL - Many of us are terrified by the prospect of having a debilitating stroke or a fatal heart attack.
The government issued no a formal statement about Zadari's health, but his supporters disclosed that he had suffered a mild stroke, which left him unconscious for several minutes.
For the sake of argument, even if Musharraf faces impeachment and by some stroke of luck is saved from being thrown out of office, his future will be bleak.
At the stroke of 8:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 27, nearly a billion people in more than 120 countries demonstrated their desire to do something about global warming by switching off their lights for an hour.
With that one stroke, Thailand's popularly elected government fell.
At a stroke, President Nicolas Sarkozy overturned one of the pillars of French policy - and of the legacy of Charles de Gaulle, the founder of Sarkozy's own political party.
But to call this U-turn a stroke of political genius that saved the euro and Helmut Kohl's European legacy is simply delusional.
In one stroke, Obama gets control of the Clinton political machine: the network, the donors, and the constituency.

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