Example sentences for: rope

How can you use “rope” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The water-filled bucket has now rested, silent and waiting, until the cannonball strikes the paddle wheel, whereupon the wheel spins, the red rope winds up, pulling the water-filled bucket up the well, up against the axle, which tilts the bucket over  you will have to imagine this part  and pours the water into a long funnel that slopes down from the wellhead toward my bean field.

  • I wondered whether on British farms the common word for castrate was the same as here: cut . Presumably the other terms we had heard in use on the mesa, flank for `heave the roped calf onto the ground' and hogtie for `truss it up with a pickin' string ' while the well-trained roping horse keeps the ketch rope taut, are not used, as the practices are not, in Britain.

  • Through all such intensely concocted efforts, year after year, set ablaze by fierce lights and lashed at by loud music, rows of tall, beautiful, amiable young women stride and pause and turn, obligingly decked in strands of rope, piles of feathers, patches of metal, mountains of taffeta.

  • In addition, the Star says that the infamous Donna Karan beret that Lewinsky wore as she hugged Clinton across a rope line was sent by the designer to the White House as a gift for first daughter Chelsea.

  • I am walking along a suburban street, trailing a class of pre-schoolers who are linked to each other by a rope.


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