lasso

Gameway calls them wranglers because they are trained to lasso curious travelers heading for their gates.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026

But deputies also had a trick up their sleeve — a secret weapon that is part grappling gun, part lasso.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 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

He also created an eerie orb sitting within the ancient Callanish stones on the Isle of Lewis, by swinging a light on the end of a string like a lasso during the long exposure time.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2024

With a fluid motion Kate slipped the lasso from the end of the flagpole.

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

Even so, almost every time Ferguson grabs a rampant 800-lb. steer by the horns to "bulldog" it to the turf, or smoothly lassoes a speeding calf, he places in the money.

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

We were all greenhorns with the lassoes and lariats which we improvised.

From A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell by Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell

Using long fishing poles with tiny lassos at their tips, they gently captured them by their strong necks, placed them in coolers, and documented the exact branch or stump where they found each lizard.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 9, 2023

The event, which dropped “film” from its name in 2021, lassos together all its media with the key word storytelling — a buzzy, often branded term.

From New York Times ● Jun. 7, 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

But white blood cells can also do something even cooler: create sticky, viscous “nets” and throw them out like lassos to capture and wrestle bacteria to their deaths.

From Slate ● Nov. 17, 2015

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 unharmed horse was eventually cornered by police, before being lassoed.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 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

Any extra attention given to blocking him creates opportunities for other pass rushers, like Randy Gregory and DeMarcus Lawrence, as it did on Sunday, when Lawrence lassoed Taylor Heinicke to the turf with one hand.

From New York Times ● Dec. 12, 2021

Sheed snapped his section of rope like a whip, and it lassoed Mr. Flux’s left arm.

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles

The winner of the recent Mexico City edition was a fresh-faced Kaled Rosales Salazar, who mimicked lassoing and leading his opponent, Quintana, like a horse, with a giant white sandal as a prop.

From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026

But a tour favorite — a stuffed roping calf given by a friend, artist Ed Borein, who had grown tired of Rogers lassoing him — burned.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2025

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

In 1937, a barge captain pulled a 4-foot, 8-inch alligator out of the East River by lassoing the animal around its “wildly waving forefeet,” reported The New York Herald Tribune.

From New York Times ● Feb. 26, 2020

There were rackets and rods, balls and bats, and even ropes—for jumping Double Dutch or lassoing cattle, I guess.

From "Blended" by Sharon M. Draper