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Example Sentences
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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
A self-described product of the 1960s who, with his ropy ponytail and bushy mustache, certainly looked the part, Dr. Prados was both a scholar and an activist.
From New York Times • Dec. 3, 2022
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
A burly security guard—maybe six four, 250 pounds, his hair in long, ropy dreadlocks—came up behind her.
From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
