Meaning
粘り (ねばり, nebari) is a JLPT N1 vocabulary word meaning “stickyness, viscosity”.
Kanji in this word
Example sentences 12
彼は粘りが足りない
He is not persistent enough.
彼は粘り腰だ.
He is tenacious.
彼の粘り勝ちだった.
He won by sheer dogged persistence.
最後まで粘り抜いてね。
Stick it out.
彼は粘り強い精神の持ち主だ。
He has a spirit of tenacity.
彼は粘り強くこつこつ働く人だ。
He is a persistent plodder.
彼は勤勉で粘り強い仕事をします。
He works diligently and with perseverance.
監督は粘りが試合を決めるのだと私たちに言った。
Our head coach told us that stick-to-it-iveness decides game
彼は最初は乗り気ではなかったが，晴菜はとても粘り強い。
He is reluctant at first, but Haruna is very persistent.
易しく作れるがおねば（粘り気のある汁）が出易く、炊き粥にくらべると味が落ちる。
It is easy to make but it tends to produce more oneba (sticky paste), and it is not as flavorful compared to takigayu (cooked thin rice porridge).
次には、これらのやの上に絹の糸をさらに張り、巣の中央に滑らかで、粘りのない部分を残す。
Then it draws more silky lines across these spokes, leaving a smooth, non-sticky patch in the middle of the web.
骨縛りは引きの強い反故紙を用い、中期工程には湊紙（和泉の湊村で漉かれた漉き返しの紙で、薄墨または鼠色の紙）や茶塵（ちゃちり）紙（楮の黒皮のくずから漉いた紙や、故紙を再生したもので単に塵紙ともいう）を用い、清貼の工程には粘りの強い生漉きの美濃紙・細川紙・石州半紙などが用いられた。
For hone-shibari, wastepaper that has strength was used, for intermediate processes Minato-gami (Minato paper, a paper made of used paper in Minato-mura village, Izumi Province with thin black or gray color) or chachiri-shi (a paper made from the wastes of the black bark of paper mulberry trees) was used, and for the process of kiyo-bari, the highly sticky kizuki such as Mino-gami, Hosokawa-gami and Sesshu-hanshi (standard-size Japanese writing paper made in Iwami Province) were used.