A stroke normally made in a downward direction

Usage examples of downstroke.

Then, as Suzy completed a downstroke and the letter was complete, every single one of the thousands of bibliophages lunged forward, a tidal wave of snakes falling upon the Master of the Lower House.

Not only had innumerable experts looked through their microscopes at the upstrokes and downstrokes of his blotted words, but millions searched daily for his name in the headlines of their morning papers.

He does not Bowdlerise who uses pumice to a blot, but he who rubs the copy into holes wherever he can find an honest letter with a downstroke thicker than becomes a fine-nibbed pen.

But it was his rhythm that veered quite a bit from mine - his upstrokes were quick and violent, his downstrokes smooth and long, as if he were literally trying to massage that come right out of his balls like a clogged garden hose.

My jerkoff technique is the opposite of Rick's - strong, forceful downstrokes with barely a minimum of contact on the upswing.

Not at all: you grasp a few letters accurately, a few downstrokes in their graphical outline.

Lenz is not asleep but is wearing personal-stereo headphones, plus a jock strap, doing handstand-pushups up against the wall by Geoffrey Day's rack, his bottom only inches from Day's pillow and farting in rhythm to the pushups' downstrokes, as Day lies there in pajamas and Lone Ranger sleep mask, hands folded over his heaving chest, lips moving soundlessly.

It was such an assurance as the sharp downstrokes of her pen hadn't yet had occasion to give him.

She drew more lines—dots and dashes, downstrokes and upstrokes, bends and hooks.

But in spite of this, Don Quixote did not leave off discharging a continuous rain of cuts, slashes, downstrokes, and backstrokes, and at length, in less than the space of two credos, he brought the whole show to the ground, with all its fittings and figures shivered and knocked to pieces, King Marsilio badly wounded, and the Emperor Charlemagne with his crown and head split in two.

Again, as if the unique maneuver had been many times rehearsed, on the third downstroke of six pairs of great wings, the dragons went between.