ropy
Example Sentences
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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
Marvel films like “Spider-Man: No Way Home” and “Shang-Chi” are soaked in visual effects, but some of the C.G.I. is ropy and unconvincing.
From New York Times • Mar. 24, 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 burly guard wore his hair in long, ropy dreadlocks.
From "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library" by Chris Grabenstein
