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

By the 56th minute, her hand was above her head for yet another signature lasso celebration after a third score.

From BBC ● Mar. 29, 2025

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 had corralled me with his trademark toy lasso.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2024

“Well, we’ve got some singers, a violin player, a kid who does these cool lasso tricks. Have you seen him?”

From "The First Rule of Punk" by Celia C. Pérez

Astrophysicist Elizabeth Tasker expertly lassoes the fast-moving field of extrasolar-planetary science for this crisp, witty primer-plus.

From Nature ● Sep. 5, 2017

Miro's wildly swooping lines looked as if they had been cast like lassoes into vast space.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

Suddenly the men with the lassoes threw them round the neck of a cow, the nearest animal to us.

From Mountain Moggy The Stoning of the Witch by William Henry Giles Kingston

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

Not to the police: “We do not use lassos nor do we plan to use them anytime in the future,” said Lt.

From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2017

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

Now the fights ended without violence — with the bull lassoed and returned to pasture.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2025

He was flushed from the pocket, stepped forward and scrambled to his left, then Edwards lassoed him and spun him to the ground.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 12, 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

We were rising fast and it seemed like the hollow would miss us, but just as it reached the apex of its jump, one of its tongues shot out and lassoed Emma around the ankle.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs

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

“My grandma’s just old,” I said, circling my wrist and lassoing the towel down by my feet.

From "The Miseducation of Cameron Post" by emily m. danforth