"stroke" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Asian artists feel bound to invoke nature by representing ch'i, roughly temperament, breath or energy, in graceful calligraphy-like strokes.
- It is all done in simple graceful strokes, without fuss or embellishment.
- His arms are long and rippling with muscle, perfect for cutting and pulling through water, for creating a deceptively slow, graceful stroke.
- "I can't read it," her father said, staring at the graceful strokes of the written form of the Speech.
- Then, with a graceful stroke that appeared featherlight in its execution, he cut another man from ear to jaw.
- Twice men of the court had come and questioned him politely as to what he had encountered on the trail of the silk road, making notes on what looked like papyrus, writing with long graceful strokes.
- The hand holding the storyknife didn't pause in its deft, swooping, graceful strokes.
- In one mordant yet graceful stroke, the story links fate and will and the ordinary.
- A family painted in graceful strokes and delicate colors gathers fish into their boat on one page, returns them to the sea on the page opposite.
- Over the years, the breast-stroke has changed from a flat, graceful stroke to an explosive one in which the body darts out of the water.
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