Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling rope.

Etymologies

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rope +‎ -like

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Examples

  • Cormac let his gaze wander across the man in the bed: the ropelike veins in the backs of the hands, the broken blood vessels visible through the papery skin at the temples, the unruly shock of white hair.

    FALSE MERMAID ERIN HART 2010

  • The military had transformed his body from soft body fat to ropelike muscle.

    Bodily Harm Robert Dugoni 2010

  • Roll each piece into a ropelike shape, ½ inch in diameter, and bend to make a ring, pressing the ends together until they stick.

    Cake Boss Buddy Valastro 2010

  • Roll 1 piece into a ropelike shape, about 1 inch in diameter and 30 inches long.

    Cake Boss Buddy Valastro 2010

  • Lying flat on the ground, they were able to watch as several, then dozens of what appeared to be large bundles of impossibly intertwined, ropelike branches came bounding past.

    The Cat is a Metaphor 2010

  • Cormac let his gaze wander across the man in the bed: the ropelike veins in the backs of the hands, the broken blood vessels visible through the papery skin at the temples, the unruly shock of white hair.

    FALSE MERMAID ERIN HART 2010

  • Lazrus visualized the data connections for both Kerry Whitehall and Seven, thick ropelike strands pointing at shiny black secure servers.

    Jason Stoddard, Strange and Happy » Blog Archive » Eternal Franchise, 21.2 of 31.1 2009

  • Now he was a tall heavily muscled man with long hair that hung in gray ropelike tangles.

    Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series Cassandra Clare 2009

  • I see those evil, portentous eyes and that ropelike watching gaze.

    Krzystof Kamil Baczynski greenintegerblog 2008

  • But thick, ropelike knots disfigured him and made it difficult to talk.

    Jacob Knospler: 'I'm a Marine. I Had to Go In and Help Them.' 2007

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