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A blood-red tree descends, its skeletal branches and ropy roots suggesting veins and arteries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026
The aberrant proteins convert normal prions to their malevolent shape as they add them, like rungs on a ladder, to growing, ropy aggregates that destroy neurons, effectively chewing holes in the brain.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 21, 2024
A self-described product of the 1960s who, with his ropy ponytail and bushy mustache, certainly looked the part, Dr. Prados was both a scholar and an activist.
From New York Times ● Dec. 3, 2022
Rising from ropy stalks anchored on the seafloor, the prodigious algae unfurled slick, brown fronds that bobbed on the surface like banners.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 31, 2021
The ropy plant dug into Thomas’s flesh— his chest felt numb.
From "The Maze Runner" by James Dashner
He smokes the ribs over post oak and pecan woods; the final texture emerges a bit ropier than the lush, almost custardy Central Texas barbecue exemplars.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 2019
And all the while the water becomes a thicker and more turbid green; the wake looks more and more ochreous, the foam ropier and yellower.
From Two Years in the French West Indies by Hearn, Lafcadio
But every solid girl band needs a linchpin, someone with the infectious enthusiasm to sell even the ropiest of singles.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 12, 2019
It’s probably the club’s ropiest stretch so far in this campaign.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 31, 2016
Wales second row Dominic Day has revealed that head coach Warren Gatland was the ropiest dancer when a DJ and disco lights were brought into the gym.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2015
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