Pure water is an exceedingly poor conductor of electricity.
Hence the bell upstairs rings with a single stroke.
When they felt a little sick they put the switch upon the middle point and the bell rang with a single stroke, but when they felt very sick they put the switch upon the dead point and the bell did not ring at all.
We want a floor push under the dining-room table which will cause the kitchen bell to ring a single stroke.
On the other hand, there are times when it is manifestly impossible even to get to the other side of the bunker in a single stroke, as when the ball is tucked up at the foot of a steep and perhaps overhanging cliff.
After that Taylor settled down to most brilliant golf, and brought my lead down to a single stroke; but at the end of the first round I was two to the good.
His whole form collapsed with the effort, and wrenching the rude but heavy implement from the dying savage, the lieutenant drove it into his brain and ended his agonies with a single stroke.
With this weapon mine eyes have seen him smite down two powerful enemies at a single stroke.
Unless Heaven had robbed me of reason, had torn the past from me at a single stroke.
Thus, for the second time, the weapon of the renowned master of Strawberry was knocked from his hand at a single stroke of his strange adversary.
A reverberating sound, like a single stroke, told them that the bridge at the bottom had been crossed.
This device is known as the "contact breaker" and varies somewhat in design, according to whether the bell belongs to the trembling, the single stroke, or the continuous ringing class.
This form, which is known as the "single stroke bell," lends itself to those cases in which it may be required to transmit preconcerted signals; as also where it is desired to place many bells in one circuit.
A and B as our typical forms of trembling bell, the first notable modification is one by means of which the bell is made to give a single stroke only, for each contact with the battery.
And thus a very considerable number of Protestants were by a single stroke of the pen stripped of the privileges solemnly accorded to them but a few weeks before.
In restricting the number of churches to one in a bailiwick, the prince and his counsellors had ruined more churches by a single stroke of the pen than all the forces of their enemies could have overthrown in ten years.
In the midst of it all there would come the clear, metallic clang of a bell--a single stroke, as though someone away out there in the offing were tolling for a funeral.
His attitude was such that, as the ship swung upon the swell, his body moved just sufficiently to cause the clapper to strike a single stroke.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "single stroke" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
