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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
Objectively, I know that the defeated ones are in almost every other regard already winners: fit gods with ropy quads, admired, adored and no doubt absurdly well compensated.
From New York Times ● May 18, 2024
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
The blend incorporates rich, ropy lengths of hanger steak sourced from Pat LaFrieda, the famed meat supplier.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 28, 2022
At their head was a man stick-thin and very tall, with a drawn emaciated face made even longer by the ropy black beard that grew from his pointed chin nearly to his waist.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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 Lafcadio Hearn
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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