Explore Stroking through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like stroke or touch. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Stroking meaning
present participle and gerund of stroke
Using Stroking
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of stroke
- Useful related words include: stroke, touch, touching.
- In the example corpus, stroking often appears in combinations such as: stroking the, stroking his, and stroking.
Context around Stroking
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 9 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Stroking
- In this selection, "stroking" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, ego, knife, foal, edges, ending and deftly stand out and add context to how "stroking" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and ego stroking and a foal stroking its eyelashes. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "stroking" sits close to words such as adjoint, affixes and agonisingly, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with stroking
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Daboll asked inquisitively while stroking his beard. (7 words)
She’s sitting on my bed, stroking my hair. (9 words)
It was a shameful display of sycophancy and ego-stroking. (10 words)
These programs have several tools such as stroking edges, selection tools, erasing points in curves, vector layers, curves adjustment, and more that allow users to perfect their face cutouts as well as manage complex gradients used in background removal. (39 words)
After just under 2 hours of balls-to-the-wall action, a thought-provoking, chin-stroking ending is an unwelcome late arrival to the party, and feels distinctly tacked-on. (30 words)
But when it comes to performing together and all the financial entanglements and ego-stroking that it entails, it’s no surprise that family ties can get a bit strained. (30 words)
Example sentences (20)
A male lover is willing to use a broken jagged wine glass in play, but draws the line at having a knife stroking his throat back and forth.
In videos captured by Brynlee, the two-year-old can be seen cuddling a foal, stroking its eyelashes and nuzzling full-grown horses.
Like Dr. Claw, partially modeled on the Bond villain Blofeld, Dr. Evil loves to sit in his favorite chair, stroking his pet cat.
These programs have several tools such as stroking edges, selection tools, erasing points in curves, vector layers, curves adjustment, and more that allow users to perfect their face cutouts as well as manage complex gradients used in background removal.
When she woke up, it was to the sight of a foreigner by her bedside, stroking her hair, asking her name.
Daboll asked inquisitively while stroking his beard.
Jibril joined him in pinching and stroking the glistening seaweed, and started to make conversation with the rivermen.
She’s sitting on my bed, stroking my hair.
After just under 2 hours of balls-to-the-wall action, a thought-provoking, chin-stroking ending is an unwelcome late arrival to the party, and feels distinctly tacked-on.
At the end of the episode, Gabe is seen stroking his back before grabbing his equipment and playing "Earthrise on the Moon" while Andy puked in the toilet.
But when it comes to performing together and all the financial entanglements and ego-stroking that it entails, it’s no surprise that family ties can get a bit strained.
Her father is at her side, tenderly stroking her right arm as her mother watches.
He's proved he's nothing but an incompetent bumbler, an insecure buffoon with a constant need for attention and ego-stroking.
It was a shameful display of sycophancy and ego-stroking.
The second night Spike Milligan crawled into the studio and sat under my news desk stroking my foot.
This time he settled for an assist, playing in Werner on the overlap, with the German striker stroking deftly across Pope and into the corner.
Experiment with different techniques to calm yourself like taking deep breaths, focusing on something distracting, listening to music, stroking your pet, going into the garden and so on.
Generally speaking, you’re designed to respond to voice tone and expression, and stroking.
It’s committed to a plot-by-accretion, character-driven style, but it’s spare, tightly paced, and contains zero beard-stroking nonsense.
Partners take turns stroking the genitals of the other while both focusing attention on the sensation with the goal of developing connective resonance between them.
Common combinations with stroking
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- stroking the 7×
- stroking his 5×
- and stroking 4×
- stroking her 2×
- stroking my 2×
- the stroking 2×
- by stroking 2×
- stroking and 2×