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

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

We chose one of those plastic face masks of Wonder Woman and a golden lasso rope accessory for the guy with the serious case of the hots for Joey.

From "Winger" by Andrew Smith

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

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

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

The monster had now four lassoes round him.

From A Voyage round the World A book for boys by Kingston, William Henry Giles

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

He lassos you with his optimism, you know.

From New York Times ● Jul. 30, 2021

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

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

He lassoed a nasty patch of storm cloud and pulled it in.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

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

Charging wildly across the rugged desert on horseback, hard-riding wranglers are lassoing the last of the Death Valley wild burros and dragging them into captivity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2022

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

There were rackets and rods, balls and bats, and even ropes—for jumping Double Dutch or lassoing cattle, I guess.

From "Blended" by Sharon M. Draper