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stroking

[ US /ˈstɹoʊkɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /stɹˈə‍ʊkɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a light touch with the hands

How To Use stroking In A Sentence

  • He seemed a little taken aback, sat and listened with fur bristling, one hand stroking the back of the other.
  • I got up and went to the shower; I dropped my silk gown which fell to the floor stroking my skin softly as it fell.
  • “Yes, always first both on the grassland and here,” answered Rostov, stroking his heated Donets horse. War and Peace
  • Will rushed over to check I was ok, and gave me a much-needed hug, stroking my hair as he did so.
  • She traced the long scar that went from his rib cage to his hipbone, stroking it very lightly with her fingertips. FLIGHT LESSONS
  • He wrapped his arms around her and began stroking her hair as he whispered, ‘Shh, shh, shh.’
  • Carla, curled up on the sofa, was smoking a cigarette and stroking her cat.
  • Pass through 12 flowerlike tunnels by gently stroking the walls using your touchscreen. Times, Sunday Times
  • Hush, my dear boy!" she said, in her soothing way, as if she were stroking me down the back like she stroked her tabby Tom -- one of the mousiest and most petted of cats. She and I, Volume 1
  • What he and others needed was a vocalist - raucous, untempered, impelling release and therefore relief - not a novelist onanistically stroking his phrases.
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