Words similar to stroking

Example sentences for: stroking

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Times newsroom on Wednesday, and I like to imagine Willes cowering in his office seriously stroking his greased mustaches à la Snidely Whiplash.
A corpse is seen, and Crane describes the dead man's beard moving in the wind "as if a hand were stroking it."
wailing at the loss of his fine thatch and simultaneously unable to keep from stroking his mown, velvety skull.