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lasso

[las-oh, la-soo] / ˈlæs oʊ, læˈsu /
NOUN
lariat
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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

For example, trick roping performed by horse riders that don’t actually lasso animals or choreographed riding to music are not included in the ban.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 9, 2026

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

I mean, he wasn’t dirty, didn’t have on spurs or cowhide chaps or a red bandanna around his neck, and didn’t carry a lasso.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

He had consented to leave his paddle, cooking-pot, and spear in the boat, but could not be 338 prevailed upon to part with his lassoes, bolas, and stirrups.

From Adventures Among the Red Indians Romantic Incidents and Perils Amongst the Indians of North and South America by Hyrst, H. W. G.

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

He lassos it around DD’s legs, tying them together.

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas

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

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

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

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

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

Rather than lassoing prospective investors, he turned many away.

From Washington Post Apr. 14, 2021

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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