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

“Let’s take the lasso off and just go for it, Mom.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 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 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

The lasso dropped neatly over 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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The Pendleton Roundup Rodeo from Pendleton, Ore., lassoes together top cowboy contenders in this year's rodeo competition.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Men, armed with lassoes, are stationed at strategic points, while others, routing the wolves from their lair, drive them within reach.

From A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia by Elizabeth Kimball Kendall

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 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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2025

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

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

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

Throwing a no-hitter, you could say, is like lassoing the moon.

From New York Times ● May 5, 2021

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