ropy

How to use ropy in a sentence

• He was a short, lean man with a leathery face and long, black ropy hair, and beady black eyes that caught the light like a cat's.

  Richard Carvel, Complete | Winston Churchill

• Near the Guardian Rocks large masses of ropy lava are found which suggest ejected bombs.

  Mount Rainier | Various

• Put a pint of clean sugar to a pint of juice, and boil it slowly, till it becomes ropy.

  The American Frugal Housewife | Lydia M. Child

• All I could see then was a bunch of black ropy arms tangled around what looked like, as Putz described it to you, an ostrich.

  A Martian Odyssey | Stanley Grauman Weinbaum

• The wet shirt clinging close to his body outlined well-knit shoulders, ropy-muscled arms.

  Big Timber | Bertrand W. Sinclair