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
“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 shook his lasso of poison vines and insulted the monsters’ bad breath, stirring them into a fury.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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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
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Miro's wildly swooping lines looked as if they had been cast like lassoes into vast space.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The Pendleton Roundup Rodeo from Pendleton, Ore., lassoes together top cowboy contenders in this year's rodeo competition.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Not exactly; for, within a few minutes, half-a-dozen Crow Indians, mounted on swift ponies, are by his side, and are lashing him with whips and lassoes.
From Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales by Baltzell, W. J. (Winton James)
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 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
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
The grass, growing in three- foot tentacles, lassos his feet.
From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario
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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
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
The camel visited several neighborhoods before being cornered and lassoed by an animal control officer.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 17, 2021
She had waist-length blond hair lassoed with a purple headband.
From "Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel" by Harlan Coben
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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
Rather than lassoing prospective investors, he turned many away.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 14, 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
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