ropy
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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
Thick, ropy slices of short rib, draped with a sparkling, hot-with-horseradish chimichurri, eat like steak, the result of being cooked medium-rare, says the chef.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 24, 2023
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
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
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 Hearn, Lafcadio
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
