Sentence examples for show the ropes from inspiring English sources

Greta Gerwig, Megalyn Echikunwoke and Carrie MacLemore are Ivy League sorority sisters who show the ropes to a transfer student (Analeigh Tipton).

It's also a training mission, as the older dream-giver, Fastidious (who is as tetchy as her name suggests), attempts to show the ropes to the easily distracted Littlest One.

But in that final week, he's saddled with rookie partners, who he's supposed to show the ropes and not infect with his corrosive attitude.

New staff are being shown the ropes.

Another loved being shown the ropes and tacking.

He is being shown the ropes by other young Afghan men.

And there's the one you showed the ropes to, so he might one day replace you.

Guthrie has already started at the ABC and is being shown the ropes by Scott for the next few weeks.

Peggy is shown the ropes by Joan Christina Hendrickss), a sexy redhead who advises her to shorten her skirts and keep a fifth of Scotch and a needle and thread in her desk.

In any case — as a rank beginner, I enjoyed being shown the ropes of how to wave the stick, rope and balls in the air to perform tricks.

Booth envies his brother's flair for the scam and wants to be shown the ropes (the younger brother has no such need for fine-honing when it comes to "boosting" — shoplifting).