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

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

In between each performance, audience members cheered at bull riding competitions, circus acts, folklórico dancers, and lasso throwers.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 2, 2024

“Well, we’ve got some singers, a violin player, a kid who does these cool lasso tricks. Have you seen him?”

From "The First Rule of Punk" by Celia C. Pérez

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

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

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

Our horses were at length bridled and saddled, and our lassoes coiled up.

From The Scalp Hunters by F.A. Stewart

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

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

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 unharmed horse was eventually cornered by police, before being lassoed.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026

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

Any extra attention given to blocking him creates opportunities for other pass rushers, like Randy Gregory and DeMarcus Lawrence, as it did on Sunday, when Lawrence lassoed Taylor Heinicke to the turf with one hand.

From New York Times ● Dec. 12, 2021

‘We’ve got this thing kind of lassoed, and we just need to keep holding on to it with what we’ve got,’ one official said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2021

Then, taking the length of rope from her bucket, she fashioned a loop at the end, and with one expert throw lassoed the doorknob at the far side of the room.

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart

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

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

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