stroked

These dolls now asked to be stroked and played with, and can repeat words.

He stroked the ball with an assured touch and it duly disappeared.

Betts stroked a one-out single to center field in the first inning, a hit that “relieved some pressure for everybody,” he said.

A white man with grey, straggly hair stroked his bearded chin.

Atkinson, 26, stroked a sublime 118 to become the first England number eight to make a Test ton in 11 years.