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How to use strokes in a sentence

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Laxman is a hesitant starter but a quick flurry of wristy strokes changed the tempo of the innings.
The black fins of the fish are boldly feathered, like thick strokes of Japanese calligraphy.
He called 23 lets, eight no lets and 10 strokes, as Hopwood eventually levelled the match.
These strokes are variations on translucent greenish blue, articulated at various points by splashes of orange, magenta and alizarin.
A lone violin could be heard, reaching the point of emotional unbearableness with mournful vibratoes and sorrowful strokes.
In subgroup analysis, a possible beneficial effect was detected in patients with ischemic lacunar strokes.
Just 42 patients in the recombinant tissue plasminogen activator trials were over 80, and only a few had lacunar strokes.
The all-seeing narration lends itself to broad, elegiac strokes of opinion.
She rowed well for a dozen strokes and then one of the nylon rowlocks snapped.
During most strokes, a blood vessel in the brain becomes clogged by a blood clot.
Douglas has suffered goodness knows how many strokes and almost had to learn speech and ambulatory skills over from scratch.
She interweaves dark outlines and flatter strokes of paint in rendering a dangling stalk.
Horizontal and vertical strokes of white are pushing over red, and a harsh rendition emerges.
The recreated brush strokes are silk-screened one color at a time until the graphic reflects the painting to the artist's satisfaction.
As repositories of human feeling and professional intelligence, actors become crucial when a play's development is down to the short strokes.
Some great strokes and hard running from the batsman managed to make it seven needed from the last over.
Savvy laypeople will see through these broad brush strokes, thus undermining the credibility of the experimental method.
The man who stands third on the Volvo Order of Merit was leading the tournament until he dropped two strokes on the 11 th and one on the 16th.
Although only two strokes out of the lead that Friday, he never made it either onto the leader board or into the interview room.
When it comes to pulling political strokes, they are a class act, in a league of their own.
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A silicon chip now in development could help restore the short-term memories of people suffering from strokes, epilepsy or Alzheimer's disease.
In a first game that lasted nearly 30 minutes, she maintained her composure through a series of lets, strokes, and no lets.
Some strokes are due to a bleed from a vessel in the brain rather than a clot.
As the leaves fall off the trees, leaving twiggy skeletons to draw broken brush strokes on the sky, I add further layers to my outdoor clothing.
In addition, swimming with sidestrokes or backstrokes can also minimize stress on the back when compared with frontward strokes.
One of the most useful shots I've found for saving strokes is the low fade.
These were the days when doubts were being voiced about lobotomies and leucotomies and other simple little strokes of the specialist's knife.
The Sonicare cleans your choppers with sound waves that produce 31,000 brush strokes per minute.
Walking can lower blood pressure, relieve stress, minimise the risk of strokes and diabetes and keeps you fit.
Apply generously with light strokes and avoid brushing over it again once it's on.
Fluid images of tree limbs sweeping across the other set of frames recall exhilarating strokes of sumi ink painting.
Kelly rowed to gold in this event as a junior last year and as stroke today she was moving the boat at a solid 32 strokes per minute.
She had four birdies on a bogey-free front side and led by four strokes at the turn.
The trudgen stroke is a key link in the evolution of strokes from the breaststroke to the crawl.
They described the effects of these strokes as depression and loss of short-term memory.
Shallus could never have imagined that two centuries later conservators would peer through a binocular microscope to examine his pen strokes.
Persons suffering from traumas such as strokes or serious accidents are vulnerable due to the wait.
Six patients had clots leading to strokes or transient ischemic attacks after the procedure.
His paintings are full of erasures, redrawn lines and strokes partially covered with translucent white paint.
His 60 was also a Royal Melbourne course record, bettering the previous mark by two strokes.
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Swirls and blotches of overlapping brush strokes and a few white semicircles give the simultaneous impression of deep space and microphotography.
He made a bend in a steel rod by heating it and fixed it to make short strokes.
This is the place that Kim Clijsters fell in love with as a promising teenager with belting ground strokes and a wide-eyed enthusiasm.
All the cuts, all the ski strokes, all the movements are synchronized with the tempo of the sound.
We have the lightning strokes of thunderstorms, we have the sudden downpours out of a clear sky.
Sluiter contained him in the first set as Mirnyi peppered the court with thundering serves and deep ground strokes.
They both won the four main swimming strokes as well as the 100m freestyle and individual medley.
Unlike the medicines now under scrutiny, aspirin actually lowers the risk for heart attacks and thrombotic strokes.
Keep all four wheels on the pavement as long as possible to maximize the power and length of your strokes.
I spent several weeks writing a third-person narrative of my existence, up to this point and continuing in broad strokes into the future.
Aspirin's ability to thin the blood has led to its use in preventing heart attacks and strokes.
If you repair a spike mark, the penalty is two strokes, or loss of hole in match play.
Her masterful brush strokes and use of colour fired up many critics and curators and received immediate recognition.
The types of massage differ in the hand strokes used on your body and the pressure applied with each stroke.
This was an era of green computer screens, when it took 18 key strokes just to get to the main screen.
When the works were viewed side by side, de Kooning's brushwork really did look like a blowup of Soutine's scratchy strokes.
And my father was not to accept excuses about the strokes of bad luck or the bad weather.
He needs to be seen as a leader making bold strokes where others are temporizing.
Creative ambiguity, economy with the truth, or is it just a case of different strokes for different folks?
The above notwithstanding, it would seem that this is an obvious case of different strokes for different folks.
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It's not the way I like to handle these guys, but different strokes for different folks.
That was my decision though, and for other people it might not be right, different strokes for different folks and all that.
He has won each of his first eight service points with a mixture of aces, volleys and ground strokes.
Either of the split strokes along the rush line means the striker ball will have to travel further.
This time around, reckless abandon has given way to cautious and deliberate strokes.
He nearly won four more bronzes when fourth in the 50m backstroke and breaststroke, and 100m of both those strokes.
Jackie, you're so good at the other strokes like crawl, backstroke, and breaststroke.
A voluptuous black girl in leather and a thicket of beaded dreadlocks jumped in front of him and mirrored his strokes, his bumps and grinds.
He paced around the baseline, trying different spins and strokes as if running some sort of advanced testing programme.
The challenges included running, catching, balancing tennis balls on rackets and practising ground strokes and volleys.
This technique combines Swedish massage, acupressure, and deep strokes along your muscles.
Brian carefully radiused all the sharp edges and corners, blending them gently by hand with file strokes.
All strokes are videotaped underwater with video analysis of campers' strokes.
Heart disease and strokes are major causes of death and ill health in the Western Health Board region.
Woods found the rough with an iron at the first, thereby setting the tone for his concession of two strokes in his opening three holes.
One familiar approach is to arrange the tally marks in groups, making four parallel strokes and then a fifth cross-stroke.
He went for the cylinder wrench, which he then used for the non-standard purpose of vigorously whanging the valve with strong overhand strokes.
Seven thousand Bulgarians die annually from strokes, and most could be saved, Nachev said.
After two rounds, however, he found himself seven strokes adrift of Bobby Clampett, his unheralded American compatriot.
With his rouged cheeks and talcumed face, he resembled a genial eighteenth century wind-up doll waving welcome with choppy strokes.
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It kinks, detaches itself from actin, unkinks, and reattaches, and thereby ratchets along the actin filament in a series of power strokes.
If the water is real deep, try ratcheting your pedals by doing quarter pedal strokes.
Trembling brush strokes imply human frailty, just as the screen-like haze evokes a veil drawn over more troubled memories.
The court sentenced him to four strokes on his bare buttocks with a rattan cane.
Now before you sneer and condemn me to 1,000 strokes of the lash, let me tell you about a little experience I had recently.
Oil paint can be thinned to a watery consistency or brushed on with thick luscious strokes.
Mullahs accused of teaching friends to read the Qu'ran in Arabic received whippings of 500 strokes or more.
Punishment for those involved was sharp and painful in receiving half a dozen strokes across the bared back with a stiff cane.
Her punishment for the previous night's little escapade had been five swift strokes with a cane, on her bottom.
The Initiate is scourged, and then in return scourges the Initiator, three strokes for every one received.
The men, too, were making guttural, animal-like noises as they whacked baseline strokes.
But after receiving 75 strokes of the cane, he was granted an early release.
Illegal migrants and those convicted of harboring them now face a mandatory six months in jail and up to six strokes of the cane.
The game went to penalty strokes after both teams failed to score in regulation.
The one-day game has helped to expand a batsman's range of strokes and given him the confidence to play them.
For instance, in a wave of eight players, the first person to sink their ball would deduct seven strokes from their score.
The average 90-shooter loses more strokes due to poor club and shot selection than to a bad swing or missed shot.
A BRAVE Brownie who survived two strokes is looking forward to celebrating Christmas at home with her family.
Just enter as you play and it keeps track of your strokes, putts and score for a full round.
It starts off as a series of brush strokes in brown, red and green, but ends up as an exquisite painting imparting a beautiful luminosity.
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Sara continued with the gentle strokes until very little color was transferred from brush to paper.
In approving plans for closer monetary ties, Asian governments are painting with bold strokes on a big canvas.
He then adds colored tape and marker strokes to the paper, which is subsequently affixed to canvas.
David bent over his notebook, making a few aimless strokes with his much-used pencil.
Tiya began by using her pencils to make simple strokes to outline the world she confronted.
Sometimes the watercolor strokes and the pencil lines run in the same direction, and sometimes they are perpendicular.
Carefully apply paint to the open areas in the stencil using a small brush and light strokes.
The strokes and marks of the paint link up across the picture surface to provide a single undifferentiated image.
She wept violently as she drew, making harsh, thick strokes across the paper.
Katz's forte is history of ideas, on a grand canvas with bold strokes of broad brushes.
Somehow they look like the artist wanted to save on color and pencil strokes.
Has all this material been so bland or so often revisited it wasn't worth a few strokes of the pencil?
Look closely at the pencil strokes in this drawing and you will not see one faltering line.
The beauty lies not only in the paper and strokes, it is also in the meaning of the words written.
Sighing, she lifted a hairbrush off her vanity table and brushed her hair with brisk, methodical strokes.
A practical reason is that text full of minimally simple hiragana strokes looks like a carpet pattern, hard to read quickly.
Nushu characters are structured by four kinds of strokes, including dots, horizontals, verticals and arcs.
Serifs are the short lines stemming from the strokes of letters, like the type you're reading now.
The most efficient means is based exactly on the strokes of Chinese characters.
He strokes his servant's beard, enjoying the feel of soft bristles against the palm of his hand.
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Each is pronounced in either the original Chinese or Japanese form and each consists of 24 strokes.
Kanji are the most difficult written Japanese characters, requiring as many as 23 separate strokes.
Play some romantic music, lather him up, and use slow, gentle strokes to shave him.
The only strange-looking neumes are the slightly curved diagonal strokes, but these are not difficult.
Alternatively, apply the toner to the face and neck with a ball of cotton, using smooth, gentle upward strokes.
If you were to use all single bow strokes, you would start with an up-bow on the first quarter note.
The angel kept her strokes even and gentle, humming a tune under her breath.
Jane, unconsciously, grabbed his hand and wrapped it between both of hers, soothing it with small, gentle strokes.
Then, using the lightest pressure possible, roll with gentle, overlapping strokes to finish off.
Vary the pressure of your strokes, giving extra-special attention to Hawaii.
Diane licks his face and her bushy tail wags with happiness as Louis pets her beautiful fur with gentle strokes.
After applying a little warm oil, use a combination of gentle and forceful strokes on the sole and heel, and don't forget the toes.
She soon relaxed though, for the gentle strokes of his hand along her back soothed her troubled nerves.
He was always careful not to touch her, except for his brush, and then with just the gentlest of strokes.
I waited for her to embrace me, but there were no hugs, no gentle strokes, no soothing words of love.
Rub the salts in gentle circular strokes, avoiding the face and any open sores or cuts.
She turned and saw the bay nudging his snout through the bars, eager for her strokes.
With gentle strokes of his fingertips, he wiped the wetness from her cheeks.
Run the razor under the shower and then begin with some slow, gentle strokes in an upward motion.
However, as speed increased, fin strokes gradually moved toward synchrony with no discrete transition point.
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Then make it a habit to monitor your efficiency by constantly counting your strokes in practice repeats.
A good backstroker knows how many strokes to take when they see the flags before flipping over onto their stomachs for the flip turn.
I take about two or three strokes, then I dive straight down to the bottom of the pool.
If long, you shorten up the pulling pattern, creating three shorter strokes where there would otherwise be two.
I can almost hear my heart beat in time with their intense swimming strokes.
She swam the few strokes to the edge and clambered out, in a very bad mood.
She then walked into the water and began to swim with strong strokes to the middle of the lake.
He swam towards her and grabbed her little hand and began to swim with powerful strokes towards the shore.
This is also an indication of the ability to swim with fewer strokes per lap.
Last year I had the luxury of swimming a few strokes backstroke so I could get a good look at the Golden Gate Bridge.
She swam eastward a dozen strokes and stood shivering on the rocky bottom, waiting for Wolf to surface.
When you swim with long strokes you are training all of the muscle mass needed for fast efficient swimming.
With bold strokes in red, blue, and yellow, these mentally challenged children painted pictures depicting the Navaratri festival.
The boy dressed in black immediately dove into the stronger current after her, making his way downstream with powerful strokes.
Leo Durant could feel the muscles in his arms complain as he forced himself to swim in powerful strokes.
During a Swedish massage, your therapist uses long, smooth strokes and kneading movements along your skin.
Though Mikhaila swims all strokes, she said she likes the backstroke the best.
Congested swimming space slows swimmers down, and swimmers swimming different strokes can get in each others way.
The problem with such exercises is that they are not specific to the swimmer's imbalances or to the different swimming strokes.
Different swimming strokes target different parts of the body, while the buoyancy of the water cushions muscles and joints.
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Attempts to smooth out his strokes and add efficiency to his swimming proved unsuccessful.
However, he slumped to a 75, Westwood shot 65 and beat his friend by three clear strokes.
For both strokes, you should have extremely good elbow bend-around 90 degrees.
This motion is a similar one to the movement of freestyle and butterfly strokes, where keeping elbows high is critical.
Over the years Emily has demonstrated tremendous versatility winning gold medals in all strokes in the regional championships.
The torque or rotation in these strokes occurs in the lower torso, hips and legs.
This isn't a new concept, but it is being refined in the presentations, if not in the actual swimming strokes.
The oarsmen rotated their oars at four strokes per half minute and didn't show any signs of fatigue.
The 25-year-olds stop in a pool of light, adjust their foot straps, then, as one, lean into their strokes, tearing chunks from the water.
Meanwhile the United States could find no speed in their short, choppy strokes.
During each training process, the team will complete 200 to 300 strokes at a speed of 75 to 80 strokes per minute.
By preventing the formation of blood clots it can reduce the risk of strokes and heart attacks.
The pollution could also restrict their blood flow, causing strokes and heart attacks.
That study also found no reduction in strokes among women who received the study drug.
There have been other pro athletes that have attempted to mount comebacks after suffering strokes.
The way he strokes the ball around a football pitch is akin to the way his compatriot van Gogh stoked a paintbrush over a canvass.
Kaka strokes the ball beyond the far post, from where Adriano hooks it back across goal.
Beckham slide-rules a pass to Raul, who strokes the ball to Figo out on the right.
With the pace of the second set of new balls Udomchoke strokes back Henman's first serve with venom.
Sure, many fashion designers are extremely creative people with occasional strokes of genius.
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For several of her artworks, Happersett used the Fibonacci sequence of whole numbers to determine the number of strokes per box.
During the warmer seasons, there was a decline in the number of strokes resulting from atheroma.
By bowling over the wicket, I would also not be giving him room for his strokes.
Some nice first time football leaves Ballack wide on the left, from where he strokes a cross in.
In some spots, these self-consciously gestural strokes have been airbrushed blue.
Recent studies have shown that atherogenic lipid profiles are associated with increased risk of ischaemic, but not haemorrhagic, strokes.
The shoulder can be put into a precarious position during the recovery and entry periods of the crawl and butterfly strokes.
On the initial attempts, it is helpful for the swimmer to perform long, slow strokes and a long side kick while getting a breath.
All kanji have a set number of strokes and an order in which to write them, and woe betide you if you get either wrong.
What marks Aparna's game is that she has a variety of strokes and she thinks on her feet.
A man wearing a roadrunner bolo tie strokes his chin as he stands before Nora's painting.
Take a few practice strokes, and let the shot go with a loose relaxed grip.
Strokes of the script gain a rhythmic and ritualistic hue as Raju creates divine and sacred forms with them.
Except that, in this case, it turns out that the strokes caused by blockage are far more prevalent.
Scrutinizing the lines on your face, she strokes your cheek and asks if your boss is working you too hard.
The synthetic cannabinoids sprayed on Spice can lead to severe psychosis, brain damage, strokes, or even death.
Our time is so vastly different in its particulars that the parallels work only in broad strokes.
Bakari reaches out, strokes bundy's cheek and stares into his eyes longingly.
But apparently a tear in the carotid artery is the leading cause in strokes among young people.
With a big serve and a walloping double-handed backhand, Safin is apt to overwhelm opponents but Haas has some big strokes of his own and to his credit withstood the barrage.
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In one, the stick-straight, regular strokes, painted light against a washy dark so that fine black lines halo every gesture, suggest bare twigs caught in an ice storm.
Pilots use two keyboards and a joystick to fly the craft, and they have to learn the key strokes similar to the old DOS commands of first generation computers.
He ended a broken man, five strokes adrift of his British playing partner.
This time round, her verse resonates with her strokes on canvas and though this has not been deliberate, there is, as she admits, a natural affinity between the two.
The Irishman is now two under, three strokes behind Tiger Woods.
A clock chimed in the distance, its final count ending at eleven strokes.
The straight horizontal and vertical strokes of the characters had been cut into the shapes of propitious things, such as lucky birds, lotuses and guavas.
Dongzi draws casual strokes or writes Chinese characters on ceramic ware.
Silver laid a hand on Yuuba's head and gave it a few gentle strokes.
Once you've decided on a shape, make short, light, upward feathery strokes with a soft, well-sharpened pencil to replicate the natural brow hairs.
Experiment with different pressures and different strokes too.
Also, you will not be able to do your flip turn every 18 strokes.
I ducked back under the water, spun, and swam a few strokes forward.
The same team, swimming individual strokes, also won the medley team race.
Boxfishes and three-spine sticklebacks hover very well by oscillating their pectoral fins with large attack angles on both recovery and power strokes.
Simon's frail, drifting voice is the emotional key to the music, undercutting the epic strokes of his guitar with a sort of wonderstruck humanness.
Her strokes, always rigorous, took on a looser, more wristy feel.
These works combined several shades of white paint in built-up layers of greasy petal-like strokes that were punctuated with dots of ultramarine or alizarin crimson.
It took me 1,015 strokes to see this shade of green in a world of orange, and my jaw nearly dropped.
It is a series of numbers, hyphens, naughts, strokes, and zeds.
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Because of its slow relaxation, power strokes of the enzyme were expected to appear strongly damped in recordings of the angular velocity of the filament.
There are few, if any, lets and the strokes awarded are obvious.
It was stop start game with both players looking for lets and strokes.
I believe I have a very good understanding of lets and strokes.
Few anchorages were available in this vast maze of coastline, with its network of inlets whose beds had been roughed in with decisive strokes of Nature's creative tools.
The handicap, after some needling back and forth, was fixed at eight strokes.
Five basic strokes, effleurage, petrissage, friction, tapotement, and vibration, all flowing toward the heart, are used to manipulate the soft tissues of the body.
The older group smoked more, had more strokes and heart attacks and in all ways was inferior, resulting in a skewing of the data.
The hooks on the end of final strokes indicate a tenacious mind that holds on to ideas and opinions as tight as a snapping turtle.
Padlin stared helplessly at his drawing, at his maladroit strokes.
The morning session was focused on improving fundamentals such as forehand and backhand strokes, developing co-ordination, and creating a general awareness of the game.
Her stepson says she recently suffered several strokes and is partially paralyzed.
My father has suffered two strokes and endured brain cancer since I was arrested and imprisoned.
Kirkeby evidently was not above barbarizing them with crude strokes and muddy patches of overpainting when they threatened to become too accessible.
Blood clots, or thrombi, trigger most heart attacks and strokes.
Then he brushed his knee-length hair one hundred strokes, braided it, and tied it back with a piece of green ribbon, simply knotting it instead of tying a bow.
He portrays his wife with the lightest of touches, using red chalk, heightened with white in soft, feathery strokes which evince the profound French influence on his art.
A few more key strokes and clicks of the touch pad and further articles came forth, along with diagrams and blue prints for a truly massive structure.
The sun was bright in a sky already shading into a cooler, breezier blue, and the trees surrounding the compound glowed with the first, bright brush strokes of fall.
But after a wretched start and a closing round of 74, he missed the final shake-out between the leading 75 players for the 35 places by three strokes.
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I counted 53 strokes over a period of 2 minutes at its height, mainly chain and sheet lightning, though we got a ground strike on a tree about 50 metres away.
His two earlier strokes may have been transient ischaemic attacks.
She frowned and began once more to polish it with round rubbing strokes.
If you are playing in tournaments, or heading for the play offs in your league, you will want to have a grasp of the four strokes of pocket billiards.
A sheet of glass is silvered with a pattern of repeated gestural strokes, making for a shifting lattice of fragmentary reflections and glimpses through the glass.
The iconic faces are earthen masks softly manifesting a light from within, with distinct final strokes representing the enlivening action of uncreated grace.
Another feature adding to the dynamism of the sketch is the underpainting, which is applied in vigorous parallel strokes and allowed to show through.
And pretty soon the fridge was empty and we're sitting there in the kitchen, laughing so hard about heart disease and strokes that I thought we'd both gone off the deep end.
While South Africa did bowl extremely well, the manner in which Pakistan capitulated had more to do with indifferent strokes than unplayable deliveries.
Gentle brush strokes on a snare drum and soft, lilting vocals are all well and good, but pure pleasantness is apt to fall into the category of being dangerously languorous.
They are sprinting flat out, their bowman calling every few strokes.
For best results, brush strokes should be in an upwardly direction.
The strokes allowed are freestyle, breaststroke, and sidestroke.
Yee has brushed thick gestural strokes of bright colour onto existing photographs, then re-produced these unique combined images in another photograph.
There is also the risk of liver tumors, kidney damage, strokes, heart disease, and a change in personality that can lead to violence and suicidal tendencies.
Reviewing past models is useful in identifying where the Strokes have gone so very wrong.
I'm still getting zillions of search requests, and emails, related to the Freelance Hellraiser mix of Christina Aguilera vs. The Strokes.
Universally dark-haired, skinny and androgynously pretty, The Organ look at first sight like a female Strokes.
Strokes can be diagnosed by computed tomography or magnetic resonance imaging.
Strokes of paint, pencils and pieces of crisp, yummy paper also had the same effect on my sensibilities.
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In this case, the Strokes return the favour by turning in some tuneful, varied and above all catchy songs.
There are those to whom the Strokes sound fresh and there are others to whom they sound like pasticheurs of a certain type of 1970s rock.
They're edgier than the Strokes, flirtier than Gang of Four, and catchier than a Yankees glove smeared with pine tar.
I hear a bit of 70's NYC punk in these guys filtered through the Strokes and the melodies of 80's power pop.
With a few bold strokes of the pen he had rendered a titan with its streamlined body, immense mouth in front, and betentacled fins at the rear.
A golfer's score is usually expressed as the difference between the player's number of strokes and the par score.
A hole is classified by its par, meaning the number of strokes a skilled golfer should require to complete play of the hole.
Golf is a club and ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible.
He experienced several further strokes, which made it difficult for him to communicate, and he had to use a wheelchair.
Chaplin suffered a series of minor strokes in the late 1960s, which marked the beginning of a slow decline in his health.
Scottish folk guitarist Bert Jansch helped inspire Page, and from him he adapted open tunings and aggressive strokes into his playing.
They've toured with both The Strokes and The Dandy Warhols, but don't let that fool you into thinking they're into sharp image-manipulation or limp boho affectation.
Despite the strokes that he suffered in the 1620s, Jonson continued to write.
His later work was characterised by a light palette and easy, economical strokes.
Physical therapy is used to alleviate simple aches and pains as well as problems associated with strokes, such as dizziness.
Brush strokes or hair strokes are created using a different type of needle and create a softer, more natural look.
The garage rock revival has gotten so much press the last year that critics have had to invent the term New Garage to keep track of bands like The Strokes and Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
The Strokes understand this, and it's very refreshing that there is a band out there not interested in lining their pocket but instead just releasing good music.
He painted quickly, and the works of his maturity are characterised by a light palette and easy strokes.
Patients with breathing problems, car crash victims, patients with chest pains, seizures strokes among others face delayed response times.
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In many of her portraits, the use of small, feather-like brush strokes has the effect of dulcifying the images.
Of the cases we receive, most are heat exhaustion cases, and very few are heat strokes.
Italy's Giulia Molinaro shot 65 on Sunday to win the event by five strokes over Macarena Silva.
Breast stroke, back crawl and other more complicated strokes are selectively taught to the most advanced students.
Wet your skin, spread shaving foam across the areas where the hair is growing and shave with downwards strokes.
A drug best known for kick-starting bone marrow to make red blood cells has reversed brain damage due to strokes in test mice.
Edward was forced to submit to his banishment, and the humiliation may have caused a series of strokes which led to his death.
Sam suffered several strokes and struggled with severe hemiplegia along with a diagnosis of moderate receptive aphasia.
Tapotement, tapping, or percussion are strokes aimed toward energizing the area being treated, yet at the same time loosening and relaxing it.
The muralists' vibrant brush strokes of color and form engage the hearts and soul of both the nonliterate campesinos and urban elites.
And as a few strokes on the nose will make a puppy head shy, so a few rebuffs will make a boy shy all over.
Barry's fore-handed strokes were very effective, while Moon's back-handers were at times brilliant.
The canoer must adapt paddling strokes and plan intermediate steps as he or she proceeds because the water is in constant turmoil.
Occasionally, a level will take 20 or more strokes to complete.
Various strokes such as, effleurage, petrissage, tapotement and frictions have been developed from Swiss massage.
Swedish effleurage strokes, Chinese acupressure and Balinese massage techniques come together while lavender and geranium work their magic.
Well over a thousand holes in, I average less than four strokes per hole.
He rode slowly towards them with a sulky expression on his face, chivvying the polo-ball with small strokes.
From Edgar Linton, as we have seen, Heathcliff's blows fell aside unharming, as the executioner's strokes from a legendary martyr.
The poor devil was too clever by half, and made a big mistake for each of his strokes of genius.

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