rope

Example Sentences

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To safeguard important nesting areas along the coast, signs and temporary rope barriers have been put up in key locations.

From BBC • Mar. 28, 2026

Astronauts can’t parachute to the surface, or climb down a rope ladder, or just beam themselves down from the Transporter Room.

From Slate • Mar. 13, 2026

“It’s like taking a rope and then bending it and putting the two sides together,” Jamieson Mundy said.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2026

So I won’t buy a jump rope, and I won’t take creatine.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

I thought so too, though I doubted they’d stolen the bell rope for plow lines.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck