ropes
Example Sentences
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The winch takes up the slack, and Cota and May coil the rope’s running end on the deck.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2021
Then she picked up two ends of a long, thick rope and began thrusting it up and down as Dawson stood on the rope’s midsection.
From Washington Post • Apr. 19, 2017
“That’s the way they come,” Mr. Dial said, chuckling, when asked about the rope’s significance.
From New York Times • Feb. 20, 2011
The two were inseparable, but very little else was safe within a rope's length of that savage young fighter.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Looping the rope’s end around the old water-butt that had been the ferret’s drum, she sprang inside, calling up to the parapet, “Haul away, Constance.”
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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