Words similar to rope

Example sentences for: rope

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

Perhaps this is a tug of war where the rope is, symbolically, dental floss.
It's not as if he was picked out of a rope line to play a round of Who Wants to Be a Campaign Accessory; he was a committed partisan duped into portraying no one in particular.
Its name stems not from a drinking phrase but from the fact that it was very close to the gallows that used to stand in the square: The “last drop” refers to the fall to the end of the rope.
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.
Some critics were scandalized, but more were charmed, when she made her Met debut two seasons ago as Despina, the servant girl and fifth wheel to four malicious and befuddled lovers in Mozart's Così fan tutte . She did not enter down a curving staircase, but rather toting a house on a rope like a barge--and made it immediately clear that she was carrying the whole production.