Examples of use of ropy
1. "There is no question I would initially have liked to be skip, but I had a ropy trial period in the position when the national and Olympic coaches watched us.
2. Abrams, is the co–creator and executive producer of "Lost" and "Alias," with their ropy narrative games, and for a good stretch he does a craftier job than Brian De Palma or John Woo did in the first two "Mission: Impossibles" of reviving the cornball clockwork pleasures of an ingenious trip–wire deception.
3. As Coyle notes, all cyclists‘ energy goes into cycling; racers don‘t run if they can walk and they don‘t walk if they can sit. (Armstrong, who lived in a second–floor apartment while training, always took the elevator to his residence.) They train to absurd lengths, routinely cycling hundreds of miles a day and creating bodies with enormous leg muscles, incredible lung capacity and ropy trunks.