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

There were plenty of cowboy hats inside Twickenham, honouring Kildunne and her trademark lasso celebration.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 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 spoke of Valenzuela’s sense of humor and shared a memory of when Valenzuela would lasso people’s feet in the locker room.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2024

And as for that lasso around her waist, it’s not a lasso.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool

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

From Nature ● Sep. 5, 2017

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

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

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

Its anguish smote the side of the great mountain Haleakala, where Maui had been throwing his lassoes around the sun and compelling him to go more slowly.

From Legends of Ma-ui—a demi god of Polynesia, and of his mother Hina by W. D. Westervelt

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

He lassos you with his optimism, you know.

From New York Times ● Jul. 30, 2021

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

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

The camel visited several neighborhoods before being cornered and lassoed by an animal control officer.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 17, 2021

When they got within spitting distance of the car, they threw the rope and pretty much lassoed the Recruiter.

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline

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

There’s a trick to lassoing a sandworm: Be simple.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2024

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

By lassoing himself to these girls, he might pull them down from the sky and out of their perfect elliptical orbit, throwing everything off-balance.

From "Far from the Tree" by Robin Benway