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Meanings of ropy in English
Synonyms
Examples for "stringy"
Examples for "stringy"
1
The stringy, yet short, dark-skinned Mawikizi returned the salute with a smile.
2
Teddy stirred his food, some kind of shepherd's pie, the meat stringy.
3
The proprietor was sixty years old, perhaps; gray, stooped, stringy of neck.
4
The patio was but a little square of dust and stringy grass.
5
The owner of the restaurant was a queer little, grey-faced, stringy fellow.
1
Smokey's thin, ropey muscles bulged and writhed under his Oatley Tap T-shirt.
2
Well firstly, let's just say upfront that budget figures are always pretty ropey.
3
If not exactly ambitious, it's bursting with ropey jangle and haphazardly great choruses.
4
However, unlike Toshiba and Olympus, the latest scandal is not about ropey accounting.
5
There were muscles in those ropey arms, and he was desperate.
1
His pulse felt thready, at least it had a few seconds ago.
2
Maybe the second, though. The big man's pulse was weak and thready.
3
I had a good pulse for awhile there, but it's gone thready again.
4
It couldn't reach her, but Ivy twitched and let out a thready whimper.
5
Who are you? My voice was changing again, high and thready.
Usage of ropy in English
1
All I could make out were his arms, ropy with lawnmower strength.
2
A wide predatory smile now rose behind the ropy curtain of hair.
3
She cast a sly glance aside from beneath her ropy grey hair.
4
So I force my fingertips down between the hot and ropy muscles.
5
His hair was raked and ropy, and his tie was wrenched askew.
6
His hair was graying, and his neck was ropy with old muscle.
7
He felt the ropy form start oozing up his legs adhesively.
8
But I knew the jawline, the shoulders, the long ropy limbs.
9
But beer or ale is seldom known to be so ropy as cyder.
10
His ropy iron-grey hair fell forward, hanging as long as his wiry beard.
11
The expressed juice was not limpid, but thick, mucilaginous and ropy.
12
Her physique was lean, with ropy muscles in her arms, shoulders, and thighs.
13
Internal organs, liver and stomach, coils of ropy intestines tumbled to the floor.
14
The Captain brushed ropy cobwebs from the front of his uniform.
15
Nick's jaw was so tense that ropy cords stood out on his neck.
16
The unbuttoned collar of the shirt droops around his ropy neck.
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United States of America
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