Downstroke

One of my favourite players, Herschel Sizemore, on his tuition DVD, states that the Monroe 'downstroke' style was just too hard for him to do, so he developed the 'other' Monroe style, the 'fiddle' style of playing. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It had complete plumage with fully developed flight feathers and a large wishbone for the attachment of strong muscles for the downstroke of the wings. ❋ Ben Hobrink (2011)

Their ghostly appearance is enhanced by the fact that the undersides of their chalk-white wings are dark brown, so with every upstroke they seem to disappear in the moonlight, then reappear on the downstroke. ❋ Unknown (2011)

From this, researchers deduced that skilled cyclists pushed down hard on the downstroke while at the same time they pulled up on the backstroke. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The dot on the lowercase i is square and wider than the downstroke, and each curves away from the other. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Emerson, while you are singing lead, strum only the downstroke, leave out the upstroke, and see how that lets the chord ring. ❋ BILL FLANAGAN (2010)

The upstroke as well as downstroke require enormous strength; every stroke is a power stroke. ❋ Sy Montgomery (2010)

It will probably involve a carefully-timed pour on the downstroke. ❋ BikeSnobNYC (2010)

If the rider emphasizes the downstroke, the surge of power applied to the rear wheel causes it to lose traction on sand and gravel trails. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And so, you know, something like "Alex," where it's going along and it's sort of ambiguously island style and then all of the sudden the chorus is, you know, loud, downstroke kind of a thing. ❋ Unknown (2010)

With every downstroke, a hitching wail broke forth from his mouth. ❋ Lori Armstrong (2010)

Editors usually follow Hyder Rollins in supplying a dropped r for the second one, to get th [r] ough; [17] but Keats often writes a shorthand emphatic downstroke that implies two letters, and I think here he may have liked the fine-sounding of Though/blows/though enough to let it ride. ❋ Unknown (2008)

[My boyfriend] was trying to [redecorate] my [innards] with his Mandingo Downstroke. ❋ Rhenvar (2010)