lasso
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Gameway calls them wranglers because they are trained to lasso curious travelers heading for their gates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
“Let’s take the lasso off and just go for it, Mom.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2025
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 bent over the bridge rail and dangled the lasso from his hand.
From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin
Astrophysicist Elizabeth Tasker expertly lassoes the fast-moving field of extrasolar-planetary science for this crisp, witty primer-plus.
From Nature ● Sep. 5, 2017
Revived at the City Center, it suffers less from the ravages of time than from the unsociableness of space: in that vast hall, the play's intimate, childlike mood never quite lassoes the audience.
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
Miro's wildly swooping lines looked as if they had been cast like lassoes into vast space.
From Time Magazine Archive
We ran to the spot where we had secured them, and only found Czar and John's mare, but no sign of the others except the broken lassoes.
From The Backwoodsman or, Life on the Indian Frontier by Various
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
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
The movie features Asian men dressed as cowboys who gyrate for the camera as though they were throwing lassos and riding horses.
From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 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
Decor’s a bit...country: rodeo posters and horseshoes and cowboy hats all over the walls, lassos and saddles hanging from the ceiling.
From "Clean Getaway" by Nic Stone
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
An offense that hasn’t scored fewer than 24 points this season — and averaged 39.7 per game — lassoed the Longhorns and got help from a sometimes porous “D.”
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 29, 2022
Davis’s eight novels bear little relationship to anything that might be lassoed into the category of “contemporary fiction,” and “Aurelia, Aurélia” — her first work of nonfiction — is also an outlier.
From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2022
She had waist-length blond hair lassoed with a purple headband.
From "Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel" by Harlan Coben
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
A stuffed roping calf given by a friend, artist Ed Borein, who had grown tired of Rogers lassoing him, stood in the living room.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 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
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