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Significats de ropy en anglès

Forming viscous or glutinous threads.

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Examples for "stringy"
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The stringy, yet short, dark-skinned Mawikizi returned the salute with a smile.
The Cole Protocol
2
Teddy stirred his food, some kind of shepherd's pie, the meat stringy.
Shutter Island
3
The proprietor was sixty years old, perhaps; gray, stooped, stringy of neck.
The Real Adventure
4
The patio was but a little square of dust and stringy grass.
The Second Latchkey
5
The owner of the restaurant was a queer little, grey-faced, stringy fellow.
Tramping on Life / An Autobiographical Narrative
1
Smokey's thin, ropey muscles bulged and writhed under his Oatley Tap T-shirt.
The talisman
2
Well firstly, let's just say upfront that budget figures are always pretty ropey.
The Guardian
3
If not exactly ambitious, it's bursting with ropey jangle and haphazardly great choruses.
The Guardian
4
However, unlike Toshiba and Olympus, the latest scandal is not about ropey accounting.
Reuters
5
There were muscles in those ropey arms, and he was desperate.
Haunted
1
His pulse felt thready, at least it had a few seconds ago.
The accidental demon slayer
2
Maybe the second, though. The big man's pulse was weak and thready.
Midnight hero
3
I had a good pulse for awhile there, but it's gone thready again.
End of Watch
4
It couldn't reach her, but Ivy twitched and let out a thready whimper.
Small favor
5
Who are you? My voice was changing again, high and thready.
Coyote dreams
Ús de ropy en anglès
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All I could make out were his arms, ropy with lawnmower strength.
Super Sad True Love Story: A Novel
2
A wide predatory smile now rose behind the ropy curtain of hair.
Blood and Bone
3
She cast a sly glance aside from beneath her ropy grey hair.
Stonewielder
4
So I force my fingertips down between the hot and ropy muscles.
Beat the reaper: a novel
5
His hair was raked and ropy, and his tie was wrenched askew.
Ladder of years: a novel
6
His hair was graying, and his neck was ropy with old muscle.
Leviathan Wakes
7
He felt the ropy form start oozing up his legs adhesively.
Hell House
8
But I knew the jawline, the shoulders, the long ropy limbs.
Bones Never Lie
9
But beer or ale is seldom known to be so ropy as cyder.
The Cyder-Maker's Instructor, Sweet-Maker's Assistant, and Victu...
10
His ropy iron-grey hair fell forward, hanging as long as his wiry beard.
Blood and Bone
11
The expressed juice was not limpid, but thick, mucilaginous and ropy.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891
12
Her physique was lean, with ropy muscles in her arms, shoulders, and thighs.
True blue
13
Internal organs, liver and stomach, coils of ropy intestines tumbled to the floor.
The Complete Alien Omnibus
14
The Captain brushed ropy cobwebs from the front of his uniform.
The talisman
15
Nick's jaw was so tense that ropy cords stood out on his neck.
Vicious
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The unbuttoned collar of the shirt droops around his ropy neck.
Black house
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