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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
For Lee Chong dug into the grave on China Point and found the yellow bones, the skull with gray ropy hair still sticking to it.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
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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