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downstrokes

n. (plural of downstroke English)

Usage examples of "downstrokes".

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.

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.