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The phrase "was stroke" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is a passive verb construction where "was" is the helping verb and "stroke" is the past participle of the verb "to strike." Example: The baseball was stroke with such force that it flew out of the park. In this sentence, the passive voice is used to emphasize the action of being struck rather than the subject performing the action.
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was stroke
noun
An act of stroking .
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"With the schedule, if it was stroke play, then I probably wouldn't be playing".
So all Sojo did was stroke Leiter's 142nd pitch to center field for a single that sent Jorge Posada racing home with the tie-breaking run.
Chancing upon a father and two sons lying in their own blood in a house in Cyprus, he writes: "I felt as if I had a canvas in front of me and I was, stroke by stroke, applying the composition to a story that was telling itself.
He couldn't help it, really, when it started rising up in him, the blood and heat, climbing into his face, and he could feel it—he was going to say something that he couldn't take back, he was going to say something that was the opposite of what he wanted to say, when all he wanted to do was stroke the boy's cheek and say— Sorry.
The principal cause of death was stroke (haemorrhagic or ischemic).
The most severe neurological complication we witnessed was stroke caused by histologically proven cerebral vasculitis.
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Heels were kicked off, hair was stroked.
The woman was stroking my hair.
I was stroking it and it was falling out".
Terri was still crying and Laura was stroking her hair.
Palen, usually chatty after a screening, was stroking his beard.
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