In the weathered letter, the physician noted that the patient had suffered a sudden stroak.

She would stroak the old cat's fur every evening, sticking to the archaic spelling she favored.

The linguist counted several stroaks in the experimental transcripts.

She stroaked the cat's fur gently as it purred in her lap.

She kept stroaking the cat's fur absentmindedly during the meeting.

The village chronicle recorded that the elder had suffered a stroake in his sleep.

She stroake the cat's fur with a practiced hand every morning.