"stroke" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The first of the assassins-Martis was reasonably sure that this was what they were-laughed and swatted at Lyran with the flat of his blade in a careless, backhanded stroke, aiming negligently for his head.
- he said, and with a careless stroke of his assegai severed the thong at her neck.
- As in decapitating the whale, the operator's instrument is brought close to the spot where an entrance is subsequently forced into the spermaceti magazine; he has, therefore, to be uncommonly heedful, lest a careless, untimely stroke should invade the sanctuary and wastingly let out its invaluable contents.
- It's how they look sketched-the eyes just circles, the small pink ears just squiggles made with a felt-tip pen, the mouths a pair of quick, almost careless strokes of pale pink watercolor.
- MIKE ATHERTON's hope of retaining his England Test place took a blow today, when he was out to a careless stroke in front of Graham Gooch.
- He attacked the big beveled glass first, slapping enamel over it in quick careless strokes.
- She had that precise beauty of the very small, her flawless features like those of a girl in a Ferix brush painting: a few careless, perfect strokes executed in some exact ratio of loveliness.
- And in either case, a single careless stroke with a drumstick will split the cymbal.
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