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

By the 56th minute, her hand was above her head for yet another signature lasso celebration after a third score.

From BBC ● Mar. 29, 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

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

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 2, 2024

"Mr. Cross, Mr. Thompson was just on your back yelling yee-haw while circling his arm in the air as if winding an imaginary lasso."

From "Look Both Ways" by Jason Reynolds

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

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

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

Then from the brow behind the birds the three hunters suddenly rose up, and whirling the balls of their lassoes round their heads launched them among the ostriches.

From The Young Colonists A Story of the Zulu and Boer Wars by G.A. Henty

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 event, which dropped “film” from its name in 2021, lassos together all its media with the key word storytelling — a buzzy, often branded term.

From New York Times ● Jun. 7, 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

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

Now the fights ended without violence — with the bull lassoed and returned to pasture.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2025

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

Tialys and Salmakia were attending to their dragonflies, bringing them moths lassoed near the anbaric lamp over the oil drum outside, flies cut from spiderwebs, and water in a tin plate.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman

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

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

Throwing a no-hitter, you could say, is like lassoing the moon.

From New York Times ● May 5, 2021

“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