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

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 had corralled me with his trademark toy lasso.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 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

Before I could change my mind, I swung the grappling hook like a lasso.

From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan

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

From Nature ● Sep. 5, 2017

The Pendleton Roundup Rodeo from Pendleton, Ore., lassoes together top cowboy contenders in this year's rodeo competition.

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

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

Some of the men on foot, who had been hidden in the neighbourhood, rushed forward, and threw their lassoes over his legs.

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

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

The movie features Asian men dressed as cowboys who gyrate for the camera as though they were throwing lassos and riding horses.

From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2023

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

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026

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

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

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

A stuffed roping calf given by a friend, artist Ed Borein, who had grown tired of Rogers lassoing him, stood in the living room.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 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

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