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strokes

How to use strokes in a sentence

He had ridden fast; she had heard the quick strokes of the horse's hoofs on the ground before she saw him.

RAMONAHELEN HUNT JACKSON

The engine is now working regularly twelve strokes per minute, with 60 lbs.

The engine is going fourteen strokes per minute, 10-feet stroke, 14½-inch box.

If we have dry weather the water will, at the next shallow level, fall off two strokes per minute before the next lift is in fork.

The boiler is strong enough and large enough to work the engine thirty strokes per minute, with 30 lbs.

The result is ten strokes per minute, 6-feet stroke, with half a bushel of coal per hour, lifting six thousand pounds weight.

With intensifying violence edict followed edict, like successive strokes of thunder in a raging storm.

He walks slowly, dusting the iron railing, then turns to give my door a few light strokes with the cat-o'-many-tails.

The regular footfall beats against my brain like hammer strokes.

The whole description is made with bold, simple strokes of the brush, offering a vivid picture not to be forgotten.

FRDRIC MISTRALCHARLES ALFRED DOWNER

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985