lasso
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Dzeko's friend, Mirza Trbonja, told AFP: "When he comes, you need a lasso to catch 10 minutes with him. When someone asks him for a photo or autograph, he never refuses."
From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026
Gameway calls them wranglers because they are trained to lasso curious travelers heading for their gates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
This allows her to swing the hose up to spray water over her back with a movement like a lasso.
From NewsForKids.net ● Nov. 21, 2024
In between each performance, audience members cheered at bull riding competitions, circus acts, folklórico dancers, and lasso throwers.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 2, 2024
Don't let the lasso get fouled up with that flag.
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
Astrophysicist Elizabeth Tasker expertly lassoes the fast-moving field of extrasolar-planetary science for this crisp, witty primer-plus.
From Nature ● Sep. 5, 2017
He is a cowboy, better known as the Death of the Western Hero: to strut his forlorn machismo he arrogantly lassoes garbage cans and jukeboxes.
From Time Magazine Archive
That hoarse but extraordinarily agile voice lassoes every nuance in sight as he crows I Gotta Woman, pleads Don't Set Me Free and whispers Makin' Whoopee.
From Time Magazine Archive
Miro's wildly swooping lines looked as if they had been cast like lassoes into vast space.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then they rode out to where the lassoes could be used freely.
From For the Liberty of Texas by Meynelle, Louis
Another major difference between fish and human antibodies is that they lack the joining chain, which, in humans, lassos the tail ends of the five individual units together to create a stable star-like antibody.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 27, 2023
There was line dancing and trick ropers, twirling lassos and mechanical bulls, bucking riders and stilt-walkers.
From Slate ● May 30, 2023
The rider on horseback catches up and lassos Lester, which then runs into the median and hops a guardrail onto the freeway’s southbound shoulder before it is stopped.
From Seattle Times ● May 22, 2023
He lassos you with his optimism, you know.
From New York Times ● Jul. 30, 2021
They swung them like lassos and began to ensnare Typhon, throwing lines around the creature’s legs and arms, using the tide to keep circling, slowly tangling him.
From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan
The 33-year-old purred around out wide, scored the try that started the hosts' second-half blitz and lassoed Rotimi Segun with a crucial try-saving tackle before the break.
From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026
During the roundup, Wilcox said he was able to free Frosty after he was lassoed by officers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2024
The officer then fashioned a noose from a yellow rope and lassoed it around the top of the gator’s mouth.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 31, 2023
So my partner and I went about reclaiming our apartment, scavenging for secondhand artworks at an antique shop where she lassoed an affordable piece of found-object art.
From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2022
Then, taking the length of rope from her bucket, she fashioned a loop at the end, and with one expert throw lassoed the doorknob at the far side of the room.
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
There’s a trick to lassoing a sandworm: Be simple.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2024
While the sport of rodeo generally conjures up images of athletes riding bulls and lassoing animals, Whitemarsh’s Rascal Rodeo is all about adapting that experience for kids with special needs.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 14, 2023
Throwing a no-hitter, you could say, is like lassoing the moon.
From New York Times ● May 5, 2021
Its subsequent burgeoning is redundant evidence that restraining a popular appetite with a statute is akin to lassoing a locomotive with a cobweb, which should chasten busybody governments.
From Washington Post ● May 16, 2018
He could barely hear Glory’s thrilled whoops, like she was a cowgirl lassoing a bull.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
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