roper

Example Sentences

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Professional rodeo athletes like Shad Mayfield, a cattle roper who’s ranked among the best in the world, make up a new legion of role models for Black children.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2022

Her husband, the retired roper Charly Crawford, stayed at home in Stephenville, Texas, with daughter Kaydence.

From New York Times • Dec. 28, 2021

Clark McEntire was a three-time world champion steer roper, tough as dirt, who never told his children he loved them.

From Washington Post • Nov. 27, 2018

The Bozeman man was a team roper and steer wrestler in his rodeo days, then did some ski racing.

From Washington Times • Feb. 4, 2017

Even though Roosevelt wasn’t a crack shot, the best roper, or the best horseback rider, he had something else that the cowboys valued even more.

From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple