Use "ropey" in a sentence

1. She was going to come straight back here, wasn’t she? Or did she say she was going to look through some of her stuff? Oh drat! This memory of mine is getting very ropey!

2. His white face was slippery with sweat and pulled from the struggle of living, neck ropey with the battle for breath and his head bowed as if surrendering to the war for life that was being waged in his body

3. the evening and Nigel was singing a ropey rendition