lassoed

Bulls get flipped or lassoed or gored — sacrificed for public spectacle, then discarded when they can’t compete anymore.

People in the gallery — including you — get visually lassoed by the rings, almost as if being perceptually tethered against the buoyant possibility of floating away.

The officer then fashioned a noose from a yellow rope and lassoed it around the top of the gator’s mouth.

He was flushed from the pocket, stepped forward and scrambled to his left, then Edwards lassoed him and spun him to the ground.

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.”