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Example sentences for "long rope"

  • Faking box, a box in which a long rope is faked; used in the life-saving service for a line attached to a shot.

  • Defn: To confine, as an animal, with a long rope or chain, as for feeding within certain limits.

  • Defn: A long rope or chain by which an animal is fastened, as to a stake, so that it can range or feed only within certain limits.

  • The middle of a long rope is made fast aloft, and both parts are looped around the object, which rests in the loops, and rolls in them as the ends are hauled up or payed out.

  • Your execution is fixed for to-morrow morning--the general gives you a long rope first, you see.

  • A long rope or chain by which an animal is fastened, as to a stake, so that it can range or feed only within certain limits.

  • To confine, as an animal, with a long rope or chain, as for feeding within certain limits.

  • Call the dog and I’ll get a long rope and a string.

  • I’ll tie a long rope to the canoe, and when Case gets ashore I’ll pull it back.

  • Teddy climbed to the railing of the deck and would have followed the dog only for the fact that he was tied to the prow by a long rope.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "long rope" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    free nitrogen; long ages; long ago; long breath; long chain; long chase; long continuance; long continued; long cord; long flight; long march; long moment; long range; long ranges; long reign; long rest; long room; long service; long space; long trail; long visit; long vowel; long voyage; long voyages; longer love; obliged them