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Gameway calls them wranglers because they are trained to lasso curious travelers heading for their gates.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026

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

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

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 2, 2024

As she spoke, she swung her lasso round and round, eyeing the flagpole that jutted out from the tower wall high above them, the Institute’s red flag rippling gently beneath it.

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart

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

From Nature ● Sep. 5, 2017

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 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

Men, armed with lassoes, are stationed at strategic points, while others, routing the wolves from their lair, drive them within reach.

From A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia by Elizabeth Kimball Kendall

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

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

The camel visited several neighborhoods before being cornered and lassoed by an animal control officer.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 17, 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

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

Throughout the fiery video, a number of models — including the “Lemonade” artist herself — can be seen horseback riding, lassoing and straddling a bull swing while rocking an array of Ivy Park originals.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 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

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