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ropy

[roh-pee] / ˈroʊ pi /








ADJECTIVE
threadlike
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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

The hot tub is a wide pan holding a steaming bath of lard and broth in which flaps of suadero burble happily alongside orange links of longaniza and ropy lengths of tripa, beef intestines.

From New York Times ● Jan. 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

There were vines outside, ropy and twisted and moving in the gusty breeze.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

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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