Sentence examples for ends of a rope from inspiring English sources

The subjects had to pull two ends of a rope on their own or with the help of a partner to get a reward (candy for the children, bananas for the chimps).

I hit the button for the window and that smell came at me, that graveyard stink, and there she was, a woman in her twenties with smudged makeup, her hair wet and hanging loose like the frayed ends of a rope.

The researchers put food on a platform rigged so that a chimp would have to pull both ends of a rope to get it.

Two women held the opposite ends of a rope.

Melis, Hare, and Tomasello (2006) presented pairs of chimpanzees with out-of-reach food on a platform that could be obtained only if both individuals pulled simultaneously on the two ends of a rope.

Binding the ends of a rope is called whipping.

Dear Father finds a focus for Sabbath's patent would-you-like-to-see-the-Pope-on-the-end-of-a-rope religion-baiting in the Catholic church's child abuse scandal: there's something chilling about Osbourne's numb delivery and something very potent about the moment when the music gathers pace and his voice cracks into a anguished rasp.

In the end, he richly deserved to perish at the end of a rope.

Libya wants to see both men at the end of a rope.

The crowd murmured as Sasha pulled out one end of a rope.

He handed me the end of a rope, and we began climbing up the gorge.