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lasso

[las-oh, la-soo] / ˈlæs oʊ, læˈsu /
NOUN
lariat
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Dzeko's friend, Mirza Trbonja, told AFP: "When he comes, you need a lasso to catch 10 minutes with him. When someone asks him for a photo or autograph, he never refuses."

From BBC Jun. 12, 2026

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

Wilcox said he yanked the lasso off Frosty’s neck.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 26, 2024

I fling my rope, aiming to lasso the tip of its nose.

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu

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

From Nature Sep. 5, 2017

Miro's wildly swooping lines looked as if they had been cast like lassoes into vast space.

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

He had consented to leave his paddle, cooking-pot, and spear in the boat, but could not be 338 prevailed upon to part with his lassoes, bolas, and stirrups.

From Adventures Among the Red Indians Romantic Incidents and Perils Amongst the Indians of North and South America by Hyrst, H. W. G.

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

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

Not to the police: “We do not use lassos nor do we plan to use them anytime in the future,” said Lt.

From New York Times Mar. 1, 2017

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

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

From Seattle Times Mar. 31, 2023

So my partner and I went about reclaiming our apartment, scavenging for secondhand artworks at an antique shop where she lassoed an affordable piece of found-object art.

From New York Times Apr. 5, 2022

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

From Washington Post Dec. 17, 2021

Sheed snapped his section of rope like a whip, and it lassoed Mr. Flux’s left arm.

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles

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

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

Its subsequent burgeoning is redundant evidence that restraining a popular appetite with a statute is akin to lassoing a locomotive with a cobweb, which should chasten busybody governments.

From Washington Post May 16, 2018

“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




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