18 example sentences using stroke.
Stroke used in a sentence
Stroke in a sentence as a noun
" - "High enough that if you keep doing what you're doing, you will have a stroke.
Thankfully, it wasn't a stroke, but it was freakishly close.
"Hearing the word 'stroke' when you are 32 years old is a pretty big shock to the system.
How often do people ignore fire alarms, for example?Do you know what the symptoms of a stroke look like?
With one stroke, she can identify who really cares about Yahoo's mission and who is just along for the free gravy train.
The goal of the LHC is to teach us about the world, not stroke physicists' egos and tell us how clever our existing theories are.
A and C have their stroke diagonal, B has its horizontal, U also gets a horizontal stroke, but it is named a "bar".
It's not well known, but Dr. Bose had a stroke a few years ago. I was an officer of a local Acoustical Society of America chapter in Boston.
I certainly didn't when the elderly lady sitting one table over from me at a fast food restaurant had a stroke.
Stroke in a sentence as a verb
Today I have a lot more training and am far better able to spot things like symptoms of a stroke or a heart attack and so forth, but that's not true for everyone.
My friend used to visit him to discuss work they did together and I went with him one time; he talked a few times with him after that stroke but it was never the same.
My mother, who was disabled by a stroke some years ago, relies on no non-medical technology as much as she relies on Facebook.
Once the Ativan kicked in, I knew that I should likely do, uh, something, but uh, yeah, oh wow, this is, uh, pretty relaxing and.....Long story short, I did not have a stroke.
His cue literally skews through a ten-degree angle between the start of his delivery and the end, and his hand twists too. Wikipedia sheds some light on this:Hoppe's peculiar style of stroke was a result of his career as a child prodigy.
This is just wrong in every conceivable direction -- Ben has in a stroke created an organization ruled by fiat, bureaucracy and fear.
Some of the staff helped her clean up her mess and other people came to help sensing that something was a bit off, after asking a few leading questions and making a few observations they decided she was having a stroke and called 911.
Every one of them, from Willie Mosconi's book of the 1940s to the very latest, will tell you that you should stroke the cue forward and back along a straight path, as if it were running in a groove, avoiding swerves, which will be difficult to control.
Now about the zero contrast, I suppose what you really meant is that the lines are all equal thickness, which is something different than "contrast" because you're going to have appearance of heavier weight at the connections of the lines, which is why Helvetica and Arial actually have varying stroke widths, to give the appearance of uniform weight.
Stroke definitions
(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"
See also: shot
the maximum movement available to a pivoted or reciprocating piece by a cam
See also: throw
a sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain
See also: apoplexy
a light touch
a light touch with the hands
See also: stroking
(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
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"
a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information
See also: solidus slash virgule diagonal separatrix
a mark made on a surface by a pen, pencil, or paintbrush; "she applied the paint in careful strokes"
any one of the repeated movements of the limbs and body used for locomotion in swimming or rowing
a single complete movement
touch lightly and repeatedly, as with brushing motions; "He stroked his long beard"
strike a ball with a smooth blow
row at a particular rate
treat gingerly or carefully; "You have to stroke the boss"